Contents • • • • • Relationship to WDM [ ] In general, KMDF supports drivers that were written for the, and it runs on WDM. WDM is the driver model used since the advent of Windows 98, whereas KMDF is the driver framework Microsoft advocates and uses for Windows 2000 and beyond. In general, since more features like and are handled by the framework, a KMDF driver is less complicated and has less code than an equivalent driver. KMDF is object-based and built on top of WDM. It provides an object-based perspective to WDM, following the architectural mandate of its superset, WDF.

3 Introduction KMDF driver refers to a kernel-mode WDF driver. Framework refers to the kernel-mode driver framework itself I/O flaw Handel requests From. Lecture 12 Page 1 CS 111 Online Using Devices and Their Drivers Practical use.

Bomberman blast wii pal wads. The functionality is contained in different types of objects. KMDF implementation consists of: • and • I/O queues • (DMA) • (WMI) • See also [ ] • (WDF) • (UMDF) Notes [ ].