My company has done both and we recently decided to move away from the
buy-in tools. One of our major complaints (which has nothing to do with the
tool companies) is that using these tools promoted a major lack of
understanding of kernel-mode issues. In addition, these eools seemed more
useful when driver writing was in it’s early form (read: VxD’s). Now that
WDM is around, it’s not that much harder to just write your own WDM driver.
- Dennis
Dennis Merrill
Embedded Systems Engineer
Thermo Nicolet Corporation
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Little [mailto:xxxxx@Broadstor.com]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:45 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: 3rd party Device driver development tool or pure wdm
driver development…Which is the best???
Much of that will depend on you and your management.
The toolkits and development environments will allow you to get a driver
running fairly quickly, as long as you remain within the envelope of that
development environment, and that will depend upon a lot of things, to
include how well behaved your hardware is. If you have to “step out side the
box” however, and deal directly with the DDK, then you need to consider
taking one or more seminars from those that are available. Knowing as much
as possible about kernel mode and the DDK does not hurt, and can prove
invaluable when things go bump in the night
Gary G. Little
Staff Engineer
Broadband Storage, Inc.
xxxxx@broadstor.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Shiva prasad T.S. [mailto:xxxxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 4:14 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] 3rd party Device driver development tool or pure wdm driver
development…Which is the best???
Hi friends,
I would like to discuss here which would be the best option
whether to go for 3rd party device driver development tool or Building own
.sys driver using WDM…if anybody more experienced with
these two things could discuss issues on both the commercial and technical
advantages and disadvantages of each of them…
thanx,
shiv
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