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        How Windows CE bus drivers work

        Doug | Date: Apr 30, 2007 | Comments: 1



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        Windows CE bus drivers play an important role in virtualizing bus architectures to make higher-level client drivers "bus agnostic." This extensive technical article by David Liao, a developer on Microsoft's Windows CE team, explains what Windows CE bus drivers do, and explores some of their key functions.




        According to Liao, bus drivers are responsible for hardware configuration, hardware power control, bus address translation, and loading and unloading of upper-level client drivers. Liao delves into the basics of bus driver operation, how to use them, and how to write them. Details are provided on the PCI bus driver and the "root bus" driver.

        Read the full technical paper here:

        How Windows CE bus drivers work




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