WinDriver Linux
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WinDriver for Linux automates and
simplifies the development of user mode Linux device drivers for
PCI / CardBus / ISA / PMC and CompactPCI. No OS internals knowledge
or kernel level programming required. For USB support see WinDriver
USB Linux.
Including powerful tools for hardware diagnostics, automatic
driver code generation, and driver debugging, as well as intuitive
hardware access API, WinDriver provides a complete solution for
creating high performance drivers and custom hardware access applications,
thereby enabling you to focus on your driver's added-value functionality,
instead of on your operating system internals.
WinDriver for Linux is the only device driver development
tool that offers a graphical user interface (GUI) under Linux,
DriverWizard, for hardware diagnostics, automatic code generation
and driver debugging.
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WinDriver™ PCI for Linux automates and simplifies the development of user-mode Linux device drivers for PCI / CardBus / ISA / PMC / PCI-X / PCI-104 and CompactPCI. No OS internals knowledge or kernel level programming required.
Including powerful tools for:
- Hardware diagnostics
- Automatic driver code generation
- Driver debugging
- Hardware access - using our intuitive API
WinDriver provides a complete solution for creating high performance drivers and custom hardware access applications.
WinDriver enables you to focus on your driver's added-value functionality, instead of on the operating system internals.
System Requirements
- x86 32-bit, x86 64-bit (x86_64: AMD64 and Intel EM64T), IA64 (Intel Itanium and Itanium 2), or PowerPC (32-bit & 64-bit) architectures.
- Supported Linux kernel (including embedded Linux):
- For x86 32-bit architectures:
Linux kernel 2.2.x-2.6.x.
- For x86 64-bit and PowerPC 32-bit architectures: Linux kernel 2.4.x-2.6.x.
- For PowerPC 64-bit and IA64 architectures: Linux kernel 2.6.x.
- PCI / CardBus / ISA / PMC / PCI-X / PCI-104 or CompactPCI.
- Any 32-bit or 64-bit development environment (depending on your target platform) supporting C.
- Hard drive space:
- x86 : 35MB
- x86_64 : 20MB
- PPC (32-bit) : 35MB
- PPC (64-bit) : 36MB
- IA64 (WinDriver v8.02) : 34MB
Technical Notes
- Driver footprint:
- x86 : 210KB
- x86_64 : 334KB
- PowerPC (32-bit) : 201KB
- PowerPC (64-bit) : 399KB
- IA64 (WinDriver v8.02) : 431KB
- WinDriver can be customized to run with any Linux flavor.
- Supports Plug-and-Play and power management events handling.
- Supports I/O, DMA, interrupt handling and access to memory mapped cards.
- Supports multiple CPU.
- Includes dynamic driver loader.
- Check out the Installation Instructions page for latest instructions.
Benefits
- User Mode Development: No DDK, ETK, DDI or any system-level programming knowledge is required.
- Cross OS Portability: Use the same source code for Windows 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / XP Embedded / Server 2003 / Vista, Windows CE, Linux, Solaris and VxWorks.
- High Quality: WinDriver's kernel has been field tested on thousands of hardware/software configurations.
- Time to Market: Shorten your development cycle and reduce time to market.
- Application code compatibility: Execute and maintain the same binary code for all Linux flavors and kernels 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x.
Features
- Friendly Wizard:
DriverWizard provides hardware verification and diagnostics, automatic code generation and driver debugging, all through a graphical interface.
- Immediate Hardware Access:
Test your hardware through a graphical user mode application, without having to write a line of code.
- Code Generation:
DriverWizard automatically generates skeletal driver code specific to your hardware, for
Visual Studio / MSDEV .NET / Visual Basic / Delphi / GCC.
In addition to supporting any PCI peripheral, WinDriver includes enhanced support for leading PCI vendors, such as PLX, Xilinx and Altera.
This enhanced support includes vendor-specific driver samples, which can be used to further accelerate the driver development process.
- Driver Debugging:
The included Debug Monitor logs debug information for your driver in real time.
- 64-Bit Hardware Support on 32-bit Systems:
Allows utilizing the additional bandwidth provided by 64-bit hardware and enables 64-bit data transfers on x86 platforms running 32-bit operating systems. Drivers developed with WinDriver will attain significantly better performance results than drivers written with the DDK or other driver development tools that do not support this feature.
- 64-Bit Architectures Support: WinDriver supports the 64-bit AMD64 and Intel EM64T CPU architectures (known as "x86_64") on Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels, and the Intel Itanium and Itanium 2 architectures (known as "IA64") on Linux 2.6.x kernels.
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