May 2006 - Posts
I got back from vacation today and went to connect.microsoft.com to see if the WDK beta was up yet, and i'm happy to say that it is. It's a fairly large (2.3 GB) ISO image to download and i'm pulling it down now to make sure it works okay. Here are the
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If i said that I wasn't happy WinHEC is over i'd be lying. But not by much - I had a very good time this year. I had a number of very interesting discussions with people - about how to use UMDF for their projects, about general kernel-mode programming
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GregH asked me an interesting question at WinHEC today - one for which I didn't immediately know the answer. He was wondering whether the new DMA DDIs (Get|PutScatterGatherList) would return a single SG entry for each page, or whether they would coallesce
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I finished my talk on UMDF at WinHEC yesterday. It seems to have gone reasonably well, so I'm relieved about that. The bad news is that we couldn't make our beta support for XP available due to some internal logistical problems, but it's still on the
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Perhaps you've read through all of my posts about DMA and still think that using the DMA DDIs is optional. After all you've built a 64-bit card, and you're not using DAC so you don't have to worry about busses being downgraded on you (or maybe you don't
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