Hello Felipe, Thursday, April 05, 2007, 11:14:24 AM, you wrote:
> What really doesn´t help is that the windows driver world is huge. > really vast. There are dozens of different driver types, and some > tipes only work on some versions of windows. Well, not dozens. There are, basically: user-mode drivers - conventional DLL's with specific interfaces. These can be written in anything and compiled by anything, as long as calling conventions are met. Virtual device drivers (VxD) - kernel-mode LE modules used in Win9x. History. Forget that these ever existed. NT-style drivers (sys) - kernel-mode PE modules with some specific sections and specific exported functions. History, but still will work if you run them on Win2k and XP (should work on Win98 SE too). These are the easiest kernel-mode drivers to write, so they are often used for home-made hardware. WDM drivers - basically NT-style drivers with yet even more specific interfaces :) Invented to support plug-and-play, load-on-demand, things like these. That's all for now. But I believe they already introduced something new in Vista. -- Best regards, Alexey _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
