Hello,
I’m new writing drivers and I need to do one, can somebody helpme with
some basic documentation?, I’m in México and here there is’nt so much.
Please, this is very important to me.
Well, like it are not you, or your company, will have to spring for some
things, and you really can’t do driver developement with out them. You have
to have the DDK and the MSDN. The DDK is provided for only the cost of
shipping, about $16. MSDN Professional is about $1k for an annual
subscription. You’ll also need a debugger … WinDbg is free, just down load
it, but you will need a target for development. Softice will allow you to
debug and develope on a single machine, but it costs ove $1,000, where as a
target computer will run about $600. Books on the subject will more than
likely run you in the neighborhood of $200, and you really need to consider
attending a seminar for about $1500, not counting travel and lodging. If you
opt to do it without the seminar, then you can multiply the time you
estimate it will take to write, debug and deliver a driver by a factor of
10. For a first driver, even with the seminar, you still need to take your
estimated development time and multiply it by 4, and that depends upon alot
of things.
All totaled, I’d say that a cost of $4,000 is a minimum cost to complete
your first driver … IF you meet the schedule, and that does not count your
hourly cost to your employer in wages. Add in that, and the cost will
rapidly exceed many many times that.
As to documentation … its all copyrighted and included in the MSDN and
DDK. Look for books by Viscarola and Mason, Oney, and Baker.
–
Gary G. Little
Have Computer, will travel …
909-698-3191
909-551-2105
www.wd-3.com
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>
> Hello,
> I’m new writing drivers and I need to do one, can somebody helpme with
> some basic documentation?, I’m in México and here there is’nt so much.
> Please, this is very important to me.
>
>
Even in Mexico you should be able to get a copy of the standard books on the
subject. Walter Oney’s WDM book is at http://www.oneysoft.com, Peter
Viscarola and Tony Mason’s book is at
http://www.osr.com/publications_main.shtml, The Dekker and Newcomer book can
be found at http://www.eclectic-eng.com. You can also look for them at
http://www.amazon.com or at any other on-line bookstore. There are other
books (Cant, Baker) which I haven’t read yet. You can peruse the wealth of
information at http://www.osr.com, or at http://www.pcausa.com, or you can
even go to my course’s web site at
http://www.rivier.edu/faculty/amoreira/web/cs690b03/tut1 and read a crude
tutorial on how to write your very first non-wdm driver.
Good luck !
Alberto.
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From: xxxxx@hotmail.com [mailto:xxxxx@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 6:36 PMHello,
I’m new writing drivers and I need to do one, can somebody helpme with
some basic documentation?, I’m in M?xico and here there is’nt so much.
Please, this is very important to me.
Dude, you’ve moved me to pity. Remember, with the internet, you’re NOT in
M?xico anymore.
Start Here: http://www.osr.com/resources_main.shtml
Then go to http://www.osr.com/ddk/ddk.htm to start reading through the DDK.
After you’re brain chokes go to http://www.ntdev.org/archive/ to search the
archives for this list.
For books, try http://www.amazon.com. Go to the little search box and type
“device driver”. Enjoy.
Harmony,
–Christine