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Porting Drivers to CE6 up on Channel 9

Just a quick note that a detailed presentation about driver porting in CE6 is now available on Channel 9 : http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/TravisHobrla/Porting-Drivers-to-Windows-CE-60/ This presentation was developed by Juggs Ravalia and myself and has Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:07 PM by ce_base | 1 Comments

BSP Porting Documentation

When I was a developer, and customer, using MSDN in my day-to-day work, I occasionally found myself frustrated by document discoverability. MSDN often had the information I was looking for -- sometimes in multiple formats -- but finding just what you Read More...
Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 5:41 PM by ce_base | 1 Comments

MARSHAL_FORCE_ALIAS

Posted by: Sue Loh Hello out there, it's been a long time since I posted anything real, and I feel sorry about that. As I began writing this article, I had just come from the first day of TechEd where I saw my colleagues present about CE6 and drivers, Read More...
Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 11:03 AM by ce_base | 8 Comments

Windows CE Power Management

Nicolas Besson, one of our MVPs, posted a nice series of articles about power management in Windows CE that I thought I'd bring some attention to: http://nicolasbesson.blogspot.com/2008/04/power-management-under-window-ce-part.html http://nicolasbesson.blogspot.com/2008/04/power-management-under-windows-ce-part.html Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:45 AM by ce_base | 1 Comments

CE6 OAL: What you need to know update

For those of you that enjoyed Sue's excellent article CE6 OAL: What you need to know , the presentation the article draws from is now posted online at Channel9 here: Porting a CE5.0 BSP to CE6.0 . Hopefully we'll post a similar presentation about porting Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:17 AM by ce_base | 0 Comments

Making parts of Windows CE Device Driver Code Non-Pageable

Posted by Wes Barcalow Following on to Sue’s previous posts describing the paging pool and memory management, I wanted to talk about how drivers can be made pageable for additional virtual memory savings. Windows CE has features to allow for more data Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:00 PM by ce_base | 3 Comments

How does Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Start?

Posted by Kurt Kennett, Senior Development Lead, Windows CE OS Core Operating system code, as one of my colleague developers recently realized, is “just code”. It’s not voodoo and it does not exist on a higher plane of knowledge. In fact, an operating Read More...
Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 2:52 PM by ce_base | 19 Comments

Adding and removing KITL drivers in x86 BSPs

Overview Today I want to chat about what it takes to support a new Ethernet chip for download and KITL debugging on an x86 PC-based platform. We'll start by talking about how Ethernet drivers are represented in the x86 KITL structure, then we'll walk Read More...
Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 11:07 AM by ce_base | 1 Comments

Windows CE Tools BSP bringup project: x86 emulator BSP bringup for Windows CE 6.0

(Posted By: Craig Friesen) Hi, this is Matt Johnson, Jalen He, Nachiket Acharya, Joel Clark and Craig Friesen of the Platform Builder Tools Test Team. We've been given two weeks from our normal duties of writing and running tests against the CE tools Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 3:40 PM by ce_base | 4 Comments

So Long To DIM(), ARRAY_SIZE(), and...

Posted by Riki June I’ve been doing some tidy up work in the driver code, and would like to draw your attention to a little something you will know too well: #define dim(x) (sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0])) Sadly, its time has come to be deprecated. What did we Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:30 PM by ce_base | 1 Comments

Big Book of BSP Wiki

I wanted to point our readers to the new "Big Book of BSP" wiki on Channel-9. The BSP and Drivers folks at Microsoft have been generating content relevant to BSP development for the community. We want to enable higher-quality BSPs, so we're providing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:28 PM by ce_base | 3 Comments
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How Bus Drivers Work

Posted by David Liao Abstract A bus driver is designed for controlling and configuring a specific Bus. It also configures and controls hardware on the bus and loads & unloads hardware drivers called client drivers. It also carries out bus request Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:54 AM by ce_base | 1 Comments

Understanding VirtualSetAttributes

Posted by Kurt Kennett Virtual Memory is fantastic. It allows you to create this personalized ‘view’ of the memory space of a computer, and rearrange where things are physically to suit your desires. This is especially good for the organization of registers Read More...
Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 10:57 AM by ce_base | 30 Comments
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HAL Flat Display Driver Demystified

Posted by Oguz Sinanoglu Let’s talk about display drivers, particularly HAL Flat ones. HAL stands for Hardware Abstraction Layer and is also known as OEM Adaptation Layer ( OAL ). What is a HAL Flat display driver? In brief, it is yet another implementation Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:30 AM by ce_base | 1 Comments

Introduction: Kurt Kennett

Hi! I’m a development lead on the Windows CE base team here at Microsoft. I just started back in June, after working in the industry for over 15 years at companies like Electronic Arts, General Electric, Nortel Networks, and Intrinsyc Software. I used Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:14 AM by ce_base | 4 Comments
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