Intro
A bit about me:
- I grew up in the Bay Area and got my B.S in CSc from Cal Poly, SLO
- I have been working at MSFT for 8.5 years and counting...
- We own a 100+ year old house, so I have become intimately familiar with home repair ... and now search overstock.com for power tools (which I find personally hilarious because the whole reason I was attracted to programming was based on the problem that I was not good with my hands I was afraid I was going to cut a finger off rather quickly...).
I have been writing drivers the entire time I have been working at MSFT. That is a bit strange compared to alot of my friends at MSFT, folks tend to move around from job to job over the years. Anyways, here are the things that I have worked on / owned over the years:
- input
- i8042prt.sys (e.g. PS/2)
- kbdclass, mouclass,
- sermouse,
- hidgame
- gameenum
- etc...
- the Bluetooth core v1.0
- HCI
- SDP (client, server, parser, database, caching)
- L2CAP
- Kernel Mode Driver Framework (KMDF)
- pnp/power/power policy state management
- WDFIOTARGET
- WMI
- collections
- etc...
in addition to drivers, i have had my hands in various parts of user mode (ports class installer, bug fixes in desk.cpl during Windows 2000, bits of BTH UI, etc.), so I am not a pure KM junkie. I write in C and C++ (a limited subset); I have used C# to implement a couple of KMDF related build tools as well.
I am currently working on KMDF, KMDF is a part of the greater WDF (Windows Driver Foundation) initiative at Microsoft. WDF's goal is to improve driver quality. We want to improve quality on a variety of fronts, from development time (SDV, PreFAST for drivers) and at runtime (KMDF, UMDF).
BTW, you can download KMDF (And the server 2003 SP1 DDK) from here, https://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/wdf/KMDF_pkg.mspx
My goal for this blog is to talk about WDM and KMDF driver issues and desing patterns, from the simple and mundane to the hard and esoteric. I have a ton of repeated questions that i answer all the time, I am open to suggestions for new topics and general banter ;).
Comments
- Anonymous
February 13, 2006
A better place to find good cheap power tools is Harbor Freight; go take a look at their web site.
blair - Anonymous
February 13, 2006
Good to know, will check it out