Re: PCI Windows and NT driver

["John R Pierce" <pierce@hogranch.com>]

K Kibria <kkibria@iss-us.com> write...
>I am trying to write Windows 95 and NT drivers for a PCI based
>serial-parallel port card. Can anyone suggest me a good starting point? Any
>help will be greatly appreciated. Also how do I get hold of a PCI BIOS
>stadard. I checked pci-sig website and didn't find any reference to PCI BIOS
>spec.


The PCI specifications, including the BIOS specs, are available for a nominal
fee, cheaper for PCI-SIG members.

For writing Windows95/98 and NT drivers, you will need the Microsoft DDK's for
each of those systems.  These are generally available as part of Microsoft's
MSDN subscription, I dont know if you can download the full DDK, but the
documentation _is_ available online for free as part of MSDN Online
(msdn.microsoft.com, 'online library'), you need to sign up to access this
(and I highly recommend using MS Internet Explorer 4.01-SP1 for this).  In the
full DDK's for 95 and NT are sample COM drivers for the standard PC serial
ports, this is as good a starting place as any.   You *should* note, NT and 95
drivers are TOTALLY different.

-jrp