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Can someone explain the difference between Windows 95 drivers and and WDM drivers? They usually charge a fee for doing so, too. 18:56, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC) Thanks. - In researching windows audio, I have found a few sites that claim WDM to be an audio driver, like MME or ASIO.

Then I found another one that says WDM is just a 'wrapper' for all the other types. This article leads me to believe the latter is true. - 17:10, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC) Both claims are false. 18:56, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC) Very informative.

- 03:57, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC). OK, someone was giving Omegatron the run-around. Alaska Drivers License Renewal Locations. WDM is basically an intermediary level driver model that was introduced to increase the functionality and ease of writing drivers for Windows. The WDM does not work in Windows 95 because WDM was designed to be binary compatible between Windows 98 and Windows 2000 (mainly, I think, to make it easier for equipment manufacturers to migrate from 98 to 2000). WDM consists of a few things: • Class drivers: these can be thought of as built-in framework drivers (for lack of a better word) that miniport and other class drivers can be built on top of. According to my MCSE book (yes, I have one of these), the class drivers provide an interfaces between different levels of the WDM architecture.

Common functionality between different classes of drivers can be written into the class driver and used by other class and miniport drivers. The lower edge of the class driver will have its interface exposed to the miniport driver, while the upper edge of top level class drivers (implying, I suppose, that class drivers can be layered) is operating system specific. Class drivers can be dynamically loaded and unloaded at will. They can do class specific functions that are not hardware or bus-specific (with the exception of bus-type class drivers) and in fact sometimes only do class specific functions like ). • Miniport drivers: these are USB, Audio, SCSI and network adapters. They (according to Microsoft at any rate) should be source and binary compatible between Windows 98 and Windows 2000 (and I would assume Windows XP and Windows Server 2003).

They are hardware specific but control access to the hardware through a specific bus class driver. • OS Services: this layer is all the operating system stuff that has been abstracted away from the miniport driver. • Virtualisation drivers: have been part of Windows since v3.0.

These are basically for legacy drivers - not really used anymore. - 08:16, 3 May 2005 (UTC) P.S. The diagram is one I whipped up myself, but the info is from: Finnel, Lynn (2000). MCSE Exam 70-215, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. Chapter 1, Introduction to Microsoft Windows 2000, pg 13-18... Forgot to note this. - 08:24, 3 May 2005 (UTC) Hmm.

I've always thought WDM was actually introduced in ME and 2k, since those two were developed together. -- 15:09, 5 April 2006 (UTC). Contents • • • • • • • Excellent overview [ ] Can be found. - 11:08, 28 January 2006 (UTC) Broken link -- 12:33, 28 May 2007 (UTC) Can be found, now.

18:36, 1 June 2007 (UTC) Documentation [ ] It is interesting that the Wikipedia description of what is called a 'model' for the arcane world of driver programming contains this comment: 'There were also a number of concerns about the quality of documentation and samples that Microsoft provided.' A model is something that is invented to abstract away complexity in a problem domain or, failing that, to present a way of organizing an approach that shall be used or is recommended to complete a task. Obviously, the Windows Driver Model was a failure in this regard.

'Quality of documentation and samples' is an issue of concern well outside this one corner of the product gamut. If you design and manufacture peripheral devices for Wintel machines, getting drivers delivered is a serious, time-constrained and financial burden.