This post is the third in a series.  You can see the others here, Part 1 and Part 2 . What is an Arbiter? In the NT PnP subsystem, an arbiter is an interface that a bus driver can expose which is able to intelligently assign PnP resources of a single...

Arbitration and Translation, Part 2 Building on yesterday’s post , I’m going to try to explain how Windows copes with machines with strange resource translations. I’ll use two examples in this post, one related to I/O port resources and one related...

A while back Jake Oshins answered a question on NTDEV about bus arbitration and afterwards I asked him if he could write a couple of posts about it for the blog. Here is part 1. History Lesson In the history of computing, most machines weren...