Software Generalist

Comments in italics are mine and express my own views, thoughts and opinions

Windows Internals by M. Russinovich, D. Solomon and A. Ionescu:

APIC implies SMP (p. 65)

Use of drivers to access DDK functions not having Windows API counterpart (p. 69)

WDM vs. Legacy (p. 69) - I think that for non-hardware drivers to do some software function in kernel mode / space legacy model is sufficient

Use of filter drivers to fix hardware problems (p. 69)

UMDF driver as a service that communicates via ALPC to a kernel hardware wrapper (p. 70) - I’m still reading this book about KMDF and UMDF:  Developing Drivers with the Windows Driver Foundation. However I disagree that COM and C++ lower the barrier to write drivers. I remember that someone said (probably Kraig Brockschmidt) that it takes 6 month to understand COM for a Windows API programmer. Simple C is sufficient to grasp device driver concepts. I plan to prove that in the book Windows Device Drivers: Practical Foundations (ISBN: 978-0955832840). 

Zw (no parameter validation) vs. Nt (p. 73) - here is another look at their difference: http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/04/10/yet-another-look-at-zw-and-nt-functions/

Idle pseudo-process threads do CPU accounting (p. 74)

Process Monitor boot trace (p. 74)

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