driver certification?

NTDEV
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Hello

If one writes a legacy utility driver to accompany his user mode
application.
The driver is installed via SCM.

  1. Will the software (the driver) work on Vista?
  2. How can I certify this sort of drivers (legacy driver that uses no
    hardware)?
  3. What about PNP drivers that do not make use of hardware?
  4. File system filter drivers, based on filespy sample (not Anti-Virus
    filter driver)

Please advise.

–
Elias

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On 6/15/06 9:41 AM, “lallous” wrote:
> If one writes a legacy utility driver to accompany his user mode
> application.
> The driver is installed via SCM.
>
> 1. Will the software (the driver) work on Vista?

That depends on what the driver does. But probably. Then again, if it’s
legacy, it’s probably a 32-bit driver (?) so you’ll need to port it to
64-bit at some point. Depending on what this driver does, there are newer
driver models that may be useful to you. These driver models have varying
signing requirements. Most of this information is available in the archives
here and in the WDK docs. If you have specific questions, I’ve always found
WHQL to be responsive.

-sd