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Foreword

Preface

About the CD-ROM

Ch. 1. Introduction to Windows 2000 Drivers

Ch. 2. The Hardware Environment

Ch. 3. Kernel-Mode I/O Processing

Ch. 4. Drivers and Kernel-Mode Objects

Ch. 5. General Development Issues

Driver Design Strategies

Coding Conventions and Techniques

Driver Memory Allocation

Unicode Strings

Interrupt Synchronization

Synchronizing Multiple CPUs

Linked Lists

Summary

Ch. 6. Initialization and Cleanup Routines

Ch. 7. Driver Dispatch Routines

Ch. 8. Interrupt-Driven I/O

Ch. 9. Hardware Initialization

Ch. 10. Power Management

Ch. 11. Timers

Ch. 12. DMA Drivers

Ch. 13. Windows Management and Instrumentation

Ch. 14. System Threads

Ch. 15. Layered Drivers

Ch. 16. Driver Installation

Ch. 17. Testing and Debugging Drivers

Appx. A. The Driver Debug Environment

Appx. B. Bugcheck Codes

Appx. C. Building Drivers

Bibliography

Summary

In this chapter some general guidelines for designing and coding a Windows 2000 device driver were covered. The prerequisites to coding the initial Windows 2000 device driver are now in place. In the next chapter, an actual device driver is implemented.

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