Single cat file for single .SYS supporting multiple adapters ?

NTDEV
1

Hi All,
I have a single driver that can support a set of hardwares [HW-Ver1,
HW-Ver-1 etc]. Is it possible to get a single CAT file from microsoft
which can have information for all the hardwares that the driver
supports so that I do not need to maintain different .CAT and .SYS files
for each hardware??

Thanks for your help.
– Ajitabh

2

Do you have a single binary and INF file for all the different hardware flavors?

Have a nice day
GV

----- Original Message -----
From: Ajitabh Saxena
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:37 PM
Subject: [ntdev] Single cat file for single .SYS supporting multiple adapters ?

Hi All,
I have a single driver that can support a set of hardwares [HW-Ver1, HW-Ver-1 etc]. Is it possible to get a single CAT file from microsoft which can have information for all the hardwares that the driver supports so that I do not need to maintain different .CAT and .SYS files for each hardware??

Thanks for your help.
– Ajitabh

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3

Yes I Do have a single Inf and single binary for all the hardware
flavours.

– ajitabh

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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Gianluca Varenni
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:50 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re: [ntdev] Single cat file for single .SYS supporting multiple
adapters ?

Do you have a single binary and INF file for all the different hardware
flavors?

Have a nice day
GV

----- Original Message -----
From: Ajitabh Saxena mailto:xxxxx
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
mailto:xxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:37 PM
Subject: [ntdev] Single cat file for single .SYS supporting
multiple adapters ?

Hi All,
I have a single driver that can support a set of hardwares
[HW-Ver1, HW-Ver-1 etc]. Is it possible to get a single CAT file from
microsoft which can have information for all the hardwares that the
driver supports so that I do not need to maintain different .CAT and
.SYS files for each hardware??

Thanks for your help.
– Ajitabh

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Then just list all the different pnp enumeration strings for those devices
in your inf file, all pointing to the same service and binary images.

Your inf file Manufacturer section can have one or more
manufacturer-identifers and each manufacturer-identifer section can in turn
identify multiple PNP enumeration strings. For example the pci9x5x,inx file
has:

[Manufacturer]

%MSFT%=MSFT,NT$ARCH$

[MSFT]

; DisplayName Section DeviceId

; ----------- ------- --------

%Pci9056.DRVDESC%= Pci9x5x_Inst, PCI\VEN_10b5&DEV_5601

%Pci9656.DRVDESC%= Pci9x5x_Inst, PCI\VEN_10b5&DEV_9601

Which would be support for two variations on the PLX pci9x56 device.

From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Ajitabh Saxena
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 6:58 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: RE: [ntdev] Single cat file for single .SYS supporting multiple
adapters ?

Yes I Do have a single Inf and single binary for all the hardware flavours.

– ajitabh

From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Gianluca Varenni
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:50 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re: [ntdev] Single cat file for single .SYS supporting multiple
adapters ?

Do you have a single binary and INF file for all the different hardware
flavors?

Have a nice day

GV

----- Original Message -----

From: Ajitabh Saxena mailto:xxxxx

To: Windows System mailto:xxxxx Software Devs Interest List

Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:37 PM

Subject: [ntdev] Single cat file for single .SYS supporting multiple
adapters ?

Hi All,

I have a single driver that can support a set of hardwares [HW-Ver1,
HW-Ver-1 etc]. Is it possible to get a single CAT file from microsoft which
can have information for all the hardwares that the driver supports so that
I do not need to maintain different .CAT and .SYS files for each hardware??

Thanks for your help.

– Ajitabh

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