A big complaint I’ve always had about the HLKs is the overhead of getting a system provisioned as the HLK controller. This is made even worse now by the blistering Read more
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JunWell, this one took us by surprise… MmBuildMdlForNonPagedPool is the standard shortcut function drivers use to build MDLs describing non-pageable memory. Despite the name, the buffer described by the MDL Read more
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JanThe week the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities was one of the most fun weeks I’ve had in a while. Not only were the vulnerabilities mind-bendingly clever, that week had just Read more
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OctYet another release of Windows 10 means yet another release of the WDK: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-driver-kit The big news with this release is that driver development is finally integrated with Visual Studio Read more
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MayIn case you’ve missed it, there are tons of changes going on under the covers in WinDbg. There is a fundamental paradigm shift going on in terms of how WinDbg Read more
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AprTL;DR: Don’t waste your time like we did – 1394 boot debugging no longer works on the latest builds on Windows 10. As you might already be aware, native 1394 kernel Read more
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MarI can hear you now, scoffing as you read the latest issue of The NT Insider: “You OSR people actually think running the HLK tests is a Best Practice? Seriously?” I Read more
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MarGood News: Today Visual Studio (VS) 2017 was released to General Availability. You can download it here. Bad News: The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) doesn’t support this latest version of Read more
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Aug[Last updated 31 Aug 2016, 16:11 Eastern time] Update: As of 31 August 2016, we have verified that RS1 symbols are now present and indexed on the MSFT Symbol Server. Yay! Read more
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AugI can never help myself when it comes to updating to the latest WDK. It’s always exciting to diff the old contents with the new and see what’s really going Read more
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