Professional Windows® Embedded Compact 7

Get full access to Professional Windows® Embedded Compact 7 and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Start your free trial

Chapter 30

Device Driver Architectures

WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?

Introducing device driver software architectures
Exploring the Windows Embedded Compact 7 kernel
Defining kernel and user mode drivers
Using monolithic and layered drivers
Understanding stream, block, bus, and USB drivers

This chapter considers some key perspectives from which device drivers can be compared. It provides an overview of Compact 7 device drivers and how they are structured and relate to the operating system kernel. There are also some activities in this chapter dealing with the Bluetooth driver stack.

Get Professional Windows® Embedded Compact 7 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now