Windows PCI Device Driver Development Guide: Building Your First Device Driver from Scratch

Windows PCI Device Driver Development Guide: Building Your First Device Driver from Scratch

The Windows WDF (Windows Driver Framework) is a driver development architecture introduced by Microsoft, designed to simplify the kernel driver development process and enhance system stability. WDF drivers are divided into KMDF (Kernel-Mode Driver Framework) and UMDF (User-Mode Driver Framework). KMDF provides an object-oriented interface for kernel-mode drivers, such as Device Objects, Queue Objects, Request … Read more

Windows PCI Device Driver Development Guide: Introduction to Driver Template Code

Windows PCI Device Driver Development Guide: Introduction to Driver Template Code

In the previous article, we introduced how to “write” a Windows PCI device driver from scratch. The term “write” is in quotes because we didn’t actually write any code; the driver code was generated using the KMDF template in Visual Studio. In this article, we will introduce the generated driver code. The first function to … Read more