Dear Experts,
Somebody please clarify the subjected line. I guess Windo Logo should be obtained by hardware vendor who manufactures the device and the Driver Signature should be obtained by software vendor who develops the Windows driver for the device.
In DTM manager, I find submission package for the Windows Logo only. Does driver signature includes in this submission package.
Regards.
xxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
Somebody please clarify the subjected line. I guess Windo Logo should be obtained by hardware vendor who manufactures the device and the Driver Signature should be obtained by software vendor who develops the Windows driver for the device.
In DTM manager, I find submission package for the Windows Logo only. Does driver signature includes in this submission package.
The Windows Logo program includes many things (including the legal right
to use the Windows logo). One of the things it includes is a driver
signature. You can also sign your drivers yourself. Vista 64 will not
load a driver without a signature, so for testing you have to sign the
driver yourself. When you submit it for the logo, the logo signature
replaces your own.
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Does it replace or add to?
In my experience except for boot drivers, the vendor’s signature remains on
the driver with the timestamp signature also present. The cat file has the
WHQL signature that includes the driver and the inf. For boot drivers, I
think but am not sure that the WHQL signature is appended to the already
signed (vendor) driver.
“Tim Roberts” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> xxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
>> Somebody please clarify the subjected line. I guess Windo Logo should be
>> obtained by hardware vendor who manufactures the device and the Driver
>> Signature should be obtained by software vendor who develops the Windows
>> driver for the device.
>>
>> In DTM manager, I find submission package for the Windows Logo only.
>> Does driver signature includes in this submission package.
>>
>
> The Windows Logo program includes many things (including the legal right
> to use the Windows logo). One of the things it includes is a driver
> signature. You can also sign your drivers yourself. Vista 64 will not
> load a driver without a signature, so for testing you have to sign the
> driver yourself. When you submit it for the logo, the logo signature
> replaces your own.
>
> –
> Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>
David J. Craig wrote:
Does it replace or add to?
In my experience except for boot drivers, the vendor’s signature remains on
the driver with the timestamp signature also present. The cat file has the
WHQL signature that includes the driver and the inf. For boot drivers, I
think but am not sure that the WHQL signature is appended to the already
signed (vendor) driver.
Well, I admit to a bit of fuzziness here, but my understanding is that
there is exactly one slot in the cat file for a signature, and there is
exactly one slot in the sys for a signature. So, if you signed the sys,
you could have WHQL sign the cat, and have both be present, but if you
signed the cat yourself, I believe it will be replaced by WHQL’s signature.
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.