NT4-style driver porting to Pentium Mobile

NTDEV
1

Hi there,

I have written several NT4-style drivers that functions well for a couple
of
years unter WINNT 4 embedded, also unter WIN XP embedded with a Pentium 3.

But our vendor of PC’s has now only PC’s with a Pentium 4 Mobile processor.
On that kind of proccessor I have got an error 0xC0000018 by initialising
my
ISA cards.

Can anyone tell me what’s going wrong ?

With best regards

Arno Kwetters
Software Engineer

2

What specific function returned that error? Has your driver
successfully run on a laptop before?

d

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Subject: [ntdev] NT4-style driver porting to Pentium Mobile

Hi there,

I have written several NT4-style drivers that functions well for a
couple
of
years unter WINNT 4 embedded, also unter WIN XP embedded with a Pentium
3.

But our vendor of PC’s has now only PC’s with a Pentium 4 Mobile
processor.
On that kind of proccessor I have got an error 0xC0000018 by
initialising
my
ISA cards.

Can anyone tell me what’s going wrong ?

With best regards

Arno Kwetters
Software Engineer

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3

Doron,

Thanks for your fast reply.
My NT4-Style drivers are running on XP embedded industral PC’s with
timeresolution of 4 milliseconds.
They are not intendended to run on a labtop with XP professionnal.

We make special cards in our company + simple NT4-Style drivers, without PnP
and without acpi.
A colleague of me makes XP embedded images that depends on the proccessor.

The main difference I 've seen is the HAL.DLL.
On the Pentium 3 PC is the HAL.DLL of 100kb
On the Pentium mobile is the original name of HAL.DLL HALACPI.DLL of 80 kb

Is it possible that NT4 legacy calls have been deleted in the new HAL ?

How to make my drivers running as quickly as possible on a mobile ?

Regards Arno Kwetters

4

The difference in HAL could be the cause of the error code, but you have
not yet told the list what specific API call is failing with this error
code.

d

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Arno Kwetters
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:25 AM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re:[ntdev] NT4-style driver porting to Pentium Mobile

Doron,

Thanks for your fast reply.
My NT4-Style drivers are running on XP embedded industral PC’s with
timeresolution of 4 milliseconds.
They are not intendended to run on a labtop with XP professionnal.

We make special cards in our company + simple NT4-Style drivers, without
PnP
and without acpi.
A colleague of me makes XP embedded images that depends on the
proccessor.

The main difference I 've seen is the HAL.DLL.
On the Pentium 3 PC is the HAL.DLL of 100kb
On the Pentium mobile is the original name of HAL.DLL HALACPI.DLL of 80
kb

Is it possible that NT4 legacy calls have been deleted in the new HAL ?

How to make my drivers running as quickly as possible on a mobile ?

Regards Arno Kwetters

Questions? First check the Kernel Driver FAQ at
http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=256

To unsubscribe, visit the List Server section of OSR Online at
http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=ListServer