Re: Flushing DMA Buffer Allocated with AllocateC ommonBuffer

RE: [ntdev] Re: Flushing DMA Buffer Allocated with AllocateC ommonBuffer Wow! Am I right that this huge amount of code is due to supporting all videocard hardware models and maintaining the backward compatibility, so that the newest binary can work with even the old hardware?

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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----- Original Message -----
From: Calvin Guan
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:02 AM
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Flushing DMA Buffer Allocated with AllocateC ommonBuffer

Well, video miniport is a lot of code-:).
Our Radeon x86 free build miniport (ati2mtag.sys) is more than 600k. the chk build doesn’t fit into a floppy…

Calvin Guan, Software Developer xxxxx@nospam.ati.com
SW2D-Radeon NT Core Drivers
ATI Technologies Inc.
1 Commerce Valley Drive East
Markham, Ontario, Canada L3T 7X6
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Find a driver: http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

-----Original Message-----
> From: Maxim S. Shatskih [mailto:xxxxx@storagecraft.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 7:20 PM
> To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
> Subject: [ntdev] Re: Flushing DMA Buffer Allocated with AllocateC
> ommonBuffer
>
>
> > Miniport. For example, look at the Permedia P3 sample in
> the DDK, the DMA
> > rendering is handled in the driver and not in the Miniport.
> There’s not
>
> Then why the nVidia’s miniport is THIS huge (500KB or such)?
>
> Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
> StorageCraft Corporation
> xxxxx@storagecraft.com
> http://www.storagecraft.com
>
>
> —
> Questions? First check the Kernel Driver FAQ at
> http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=256
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Questions? First check the Kernel Driver FAQ at http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=256

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