Windows NT Device Driver Development - Softcover

Peter Viscarola; Tony Mason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578700582 ISBN 13: 9781578700585

Publisher: QUE, 1998

Synopsis

Windows NT Device Driver Development is the definitive and comprehensive technical reference for software engineers, systems programmers, and any engineer who needs to understand Windows NT systems internals. You will learn: vital information about the internal design and architecture of the Windows NT operating system; Critical information on the implementation of standard Windwows NT kernel mode drivers; Key information on the workings of Windows NT I/O Manager, including how I/O requests are described and passed among drivers; and detailed technical information on interrupt management and synchronization issues.

About this title

From the Author:

The DEFINITIVE book on NT Device Driver Development
Based on our immensely popular Writing Windows NT Kernel Mode Drivers 3-day seminar, this book tells you everything you need to know to write REAL device drivers for Windows NT... and not get hung-up on the undocumented gotchas.

Part 1 of the book describes the Windows NT architecture. Our premise here is that if you're going to write a device driver, you'll be writing an extension of the operating system... so you better understand how the operating system works.

Part 2 of the book delves into the details of the I/O Manager and device driver architecture. Here, individual chapters are dedicated to Driver Entry, Dispatch Routines, ISRs and DPCs, Programmed I/O Data Transfers, and DMA Data Transfers. We get into the details that the DDK (and other publications) just don't provide.

Part 3 relates the information from Parts 1 and 2 to "alternate" NT driver archictectures list File Systems and miniport drivers.

The book focuses on NT V4, with added info on NT V5.

Tony and I have spent the last five years writing device drivers for NT almost every day of our lives. So the book is full of real, practical, information gleaned from hands-on work. We don't just regurgitate what they say in the DDK. And, I think we've figured out how to explain to people how THEY can write drivers... because we've taught well over three thousand people in our seminars. This book lets you take one of our seminars home with you. If you write, or need to write, NT drivers, this book is a must.

P.S. THERE IS A BUG BOUNTY ON THIS BOOK. Find a previously unreported technical bug in the book, no matter how small, and get free gifts from BOTH OSR and the publisher! We'll be posting book errata, updates, and discussions of technical issues on our web site (http://www.osr.com). This is the commitement to technical accuracy that we make to you.

Synopsis:

For courses in Windows NT Programming. Windows NT Device Driver Development is the definitive and comprehensive technical reference for students studying software engineering, systems programming, and any engineer who needs to understand Windows NT systems internals. Includes vital information about the internal design and architecture of the Windows NT operating system and critical information on the implementation of standard Windows NT kernel mode drivers. Students will get information on the workings of Windows NT I/O Manager, including how I/O requests are described and passed among drivers, and detailed technical information on interrupt management and synchronization issues.

About this edition

• Publisher: QUE
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1578700582
• ISBN 13: 9781578700585
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704