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15 Jul 17 07:52
Abei Liu
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How to support Windows Server 2008
Hi, I have developped a windows 7 x64 PCIE device driver for windows 7 with VS2015 + WDK10 tool chain. This driver worked very well on PC with Windows 7 OS. But when I installed this driver on HP server(OS is windows server 2008 r2), driver would halt system for a while every time when I called driver function in my test application. For example, write a PCIE register or write 1M bytes to device. I don't know why. But I guess this issue maybe related to my compiler environment because VS2015 build my driver as Windows 7 as its target OS. I want to modify that target system but it can't support windows server 2008 in config menu. Can the VS2015 with WDK10 support server 2008 driver built? If yes, how can I configure my project to build server 2008 driver? Thank you very much!
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15 Jul 17 10:49
John McNamee
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How to support Windows Server 2008
Whatever your problem is, it probably isn't related to your build environment. Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 are equivalent (use the same kernel). The "R2" is critical; the original Server 2008 was equivalent to Vista SP1. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ntdev] How to support Windows Server 2008 From: xxxxx@hotmail.com xxxxx@lists.osr.com To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List <xxxxx@lists.osr.com> Date: 7/15/2017 6:52 AM > Hi, > I have developped a windows 7 x64 PCIE device driver for windows 7 with VS2015 + WDK10 tool chain. This driver worked very well on PC with Windows 7 OS. But when I installed this driver on HP server(OS is windows server 2008 r2), driver would halt system for a while every time when I called driver function in my test application. For example, write a PCIE register or write 1M bytes to device. I don't know why. But I guess this issue maybe related to my compiler environment because VS2015 build my driver as Windows 7 as its target OS. I want to modify that target system but it can't support windows server 2008 in config menu. > Can the VS2015 with WDK10 support server 2008 driver built? If yes, how can I configure my project to build server 2008 driver? > Thank you very much!
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15 Jul 17 12:24
prabhakar vinayagam
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How to support Windows Server 2008
Whether the project configuration were correct i.e building for a target machine. Please check in device manager that the driver were loaded without yellow bang. or please run in test mode by running the "bcdedit " for testsign to enable in cmd. load toaster driver which is availble in windows sample and run enum application to check the driver were loaded and communicate properly to verify the build/driver is proper. On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 8:18 PM, John McNamee <xxxxx@microwiz.com> < xxxxx@lists.osr.com> wrote: > Whatever your problem is, it probably isn't related to your build > environment. > > Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 are equivalent (use the same kernel). > The "R2" is critical; the original Server 2008 was equivalent to Vista SP1. > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [ntdev] How to support Windows Server 2008 <...excess quoted lines suppressed...> --
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16 Jul 17 09:50
Abei Liu
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How to support Windows Server 2008
Hi, John? Thank you for your help.
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16 Jul 17 09:54
Abei Liu
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How to support Windows Server 2008
Hi, prabhakar: Certainly, there is no yellow bang in my device driver. I have disabled driver signature during OS bootup. Yes, I can try the test driver in this hp server machine. Thank you!
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