make your own drivers

[DaGreek]

I was just wondering, if there any good sites I could go to for information about trying to write my own drivers for windows?


Compaq R3000T (CTO)
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1 X 512MB RAM
Radeon 9600 128MB
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[freeman]

I believe there is a book written specifically for that, fliped through it at the book store about a year or two ago.

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Originally posted by DaGreek
[br]I was just wondering, if there any good sites I could go to for information about trying to write my own drivers for windows?


Compaq R3000T (CTO)
P4 Desktop 3.0GHz w/HT
1 X 512MB RAM
Radeon 9600 128MB
60GB 5,400 RPM HD
AquaMark3: 24,257, 3DMark03: 3,115

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[Venombite]

What kind of drivers are you looking to write? When I worked for ATI, customers were looking for info on their GPU's so the could write drivers for it. In order for them to do that, they had to purchase a developement package from ATI that provides all that info. I'm gonna guess it's going to be the same for anything else you want to write drivers for.

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[freeman]

or try to google the product spec, whitepaper, it could be useful.

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[DaGreek]

well I would like to try writting my own for the graphics card, but depending on how hard it is, I would like to try writting for other devices too.


Compaq R3000T (CTO)
P4 Desktop 3.0GHz w/HT
1 X 512MB RAM
Radeon 9600 128MB
60GB 5,400 RPM HD
AquaMark3: 24,257, 3DMark03: 3,115

[DaGreek]

thanks for the tip


Compaq R3000T (CTO)
P4 Desktop 3.0GHz w/HT
1 X 512MB RAM
Radeon 9600 128MB
60GB 5,400 RPM HD
AquaMark3: 24,257, 3DMark03: 3,115

[Wyrm]

Check out this Canadian website(well, it grew too big, so now it is actually international):

http://www.codeproject.com/

They have some articles about drivers development, although they seem to refer to MS DDK which is $200($199 to be precise). But anyway, you can contact people there, maybe you can also find some one who is willing to work with you - post on the msg board.