Release Notes - WinDriver

New Features

• Linux: Added support for the Linux 2.6.28 kernel.

• USB (Windows CE): Added support for USB streaming on Windows CE.

Enhancements

• Linux: The windrvr6 driver installation now verifies that the version of the driver matches that of the installed windrvr6_usb driver (if installed).

• Windows USB: Added Selective Suspend support to the usb_diag sample and to the generated DriverWizard USB code.

• Debug Monitor (Windows CE): Added support for GUI execution of the wddebug Debug Monitor utility on Windows CE, allowing for its usage on Windows CE platforms that do not have a command-line interface.

• USB streaming API (Windows CE): Added a new USB_STREAM_MAX_TRANSFER_SIZE_OVERRIDE flag to WDU_StreamOpen() for overriding the default maximum transfer size of read streams, on Windows CE.

Fixes

• DriverWizard (PCI/PCMCIA/ISA): Interrupt Request (IRQ) numbers are now displayed in the DriverWizard in decimal notation, to match the generated and sample code (issue since v9.0.0).

• Interrupts (Linux): Upon failure to enable Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI-X), WinDriver will attempt to enable Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI) instead (issue since v9.1.0).

• Windows CE: Fixed corruption of wdreg.exe for Windows CE ARMV4I platforms (issue since v9.0.0).

• DMA (Windows): Fixed issue of incorrect data in DMA buffers after DMA transfer completion (issue since v9.2.1).

• DriverWizard (Linux USB): Fixed DriverWizard identification of USB devices on some Linux distributions, such as newer Ubuntu distributions.

• Windows: Fixed redundant driver installations when using wdreg with the -compat option to install a driver for multiple connected devices with the same hardware ID.

• Windows: Modified windrvr6.inf to enable correct viewing using the Notepad Windows application (issue since v10.0.0).

• Linux: Fixed the WinDriver Linux drivers installation when running ''make install'' from the root WinDriver directory (issue since v10.0.0).

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Fixed the WDC_DIAG_ReadWriteAddr() and WDC_DIAG_ReadWriteBlock() wdc_diag_lib functions to correctly handle Cancel input; this fix affects the pci_diag and pcmcia_diag samples and the generated DriverWizard code (issue since v7.0.0).

• USB streaming API (Windows): WDU_StreamGetStatus() now returns WD_TIME_OUT_EXPIRED in case of a timeout (issue since v9.0.0).

New Features

• Linux: Added support for the Linux 2.6.25 - 2.6.27 kernels.

• Linux USB: Moved the WinDriver USB implementation for Linux to a separate driver module (windrvr6_usb) with a GNU General Public License (GPL).

Enhancements

• Windows: Added official support for the Windows Server 2008 operating system.

• Windows Vista: WinDriver was successfully tested with Service Pack 1 of Windows Vista.

• Windows XP: WinDriver was successfully tested with Service Pack 3 of Windows XP.

• PCI: Added enhanced support for the PLX 6466 bridge, including library APIs (plx_lib_6466) and a sample diagnostics application (p6466_diag).

• Windows: Added support for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 IDE.

• Windows: Enhanced the ddk_make.bat build script, and the MSDEV Kernel PlugIn projects in the samples and in the generated DriverWizard code:
  • Added a build environment for Windows Vista x64bit.
  • Added support for the build options in version 6001 (and newer) of the Windows Development Kit (WDK).

Fixes

• USB: Fixed crashes when using DriverWizard and the usb_diag sample with multi-interface USB devices (issue since v9.21).

• PCI Express (Linux 64-bit): Fixed the Virtex 5 sample diagnostics application (virtex5_diag); previously, on Linux 64-bit the sample always set the DMA buffer size to zero, regardless of user input (issue since v9.20).

• Interrupts (Windows CE): Fixed a memory leak when enabling and disabling interrupts on Windows CE (issue since v9.00).

• DriverWizard (Linux PPC 64-bit): Fixed opening of saved DriverWizard projects on 64-bit Linux PPC platforms.

• PCI: The sample WinDriver PCI diagnostics application (pci_diag) now supports simultaneous opening of multiple Kernel PlugIn WDC device handles.

• Windows: Returned the wdreg warning when trying to install or uninstall the Windows WinDriver kernel driver (windrvr6.sys) while there are open handles to this driver (issue since v9.00).

• Windows: Fixed memory leaks in the WinDriver installation utility (wdreg).

• DriverWizard PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Fixed saving of register access modes in DriverWizard projects; previously, when opening a saved DriverWizard project, the access mode for any defined registers was set to Read/Write, regardless of the access mode that was originally defined. (Issue since v9.00).

Obsolete Features

• Windows 98/Me: Removed Windows 98/Me files from the WinDriver distribution. (Support for Windows 98/Me was removed in v9.21).

New Features

• Linux: Added support for the Linux 2.6.24 kernel.

Enhancements

• Debug Monitor (Windows Vista): Added inherent support for logging kernel debugger messages in the Debug Monitor (wddebug_gui / wddebug) on Windows Vista.

• Kernel PlugIn (Windows Vista): Added a build environment for Windows Vista to the WinDriver Kernel PlugIn projects.

Fixes

• Windows Vista: The WinDriver entries in the Windows Start menu were previously not removed when un-installing WinDriver from Windows Vista.

• Samples (Windows): Fixed compilation of the WinDriver samples using the MSDEV 6.0 IDE.

• Kernel PlugIn (Windows XP): Fixed loading of the Kernel PlugIn samples on Windows XP (issue since v9.20).

• Windows XP Embedded: Modified WinDriver's installation using the XP Embedded WinDriver component (windriver.sld) to ensure that WinDriver is loaded after the OS drivers.

• USB (Windows): Fixed an occasional driver crash when plugging out a USB device immediately after it has been plugged in.

• USB (Windows CE): Fixed handling of multi-interface USB devices on Windows CE.

• Windows: wdreg would occasionally hang when used to install multi-device INF files that contain more than 15 devices.

• Fixed execution of 32-bit applications on 64-bit architectures (issue since v9.10).

• Windows: The wdreg install command would sometimes pre-install multi-device INF files even if one or more of the devices were connected to the host.

• Windows: Fixed incorrect wdreg status reports for installation and un-installation of multi-device INF files (issue since v8.11).

• DriverWizard (Windows): Fixed the hardware IDs in the generated DriverWizard INF files for virtual PCI devices (issue since v9.00).

• Interrupts (Windows): Updated the Delphi and VB 6.0 interrupt APIs to support Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI) and Extended Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI-X) (issue since v9.10).

• Kernel PlugIn: Fixed a compilation error in the Xilinx Virtex 5 PCI Express sample (kp_vrtx5) (issue since v9.20).

• Windows: Fixed the Partners Libraries links in the Start Windows WinDriver menu.

Obsolete Features

• Stopped support for Windows 98/Me.

• USB: Stopped support for USB on Linux PPC platforms.

Enhancements:

• DriverWizard (PCI): Added support for Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI) and Extended Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI-X), including GUI indications, INF file generation, and user-mode and Kernel PlugIn code generation.

• PCI Express: Added a Kernel PlugIn sample for the Xilinx Virtex 5 PCI Express chip with Bus Mastering DMA Validation Design (BMD) firmware (kp_vrtx5) and modified the Virtex 5 BMD library (virtex5_lib) to support the new sample. The sample demonstrates Kernel PlugIn handling of Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI) or Extended Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI-X).

• Interrupts (Linux): Added support for IRQ 0 on Power PC Linux platforms.

• Interrupts (Windows CE): Modified the WinDriver interrupt handler to correctly handle shared PCI interrupts.

• Interrupts: The WinDriver interrupt handler was modified to claim ownership of non-shared interrupts, regardless of the interrupt transfer commands.

Fixes:

• Kernel PlugIn (Linux): Fixed loading of Kernel PlugIn drivers on Linux (issue since v9.10).

• USB (Linux): A massive load of USB transfer requests on Linux would, on occasion, result in an incorrect transfer timeout error (issue since v9.00).

• USB (Windows): Fixed release of USB devices detached during standby mode on Windows (issue since v9.10).

• USB (Windows): Fixed Windows crash as a result of abnormal termination of a user-mode WinDriver USB application when listening to a bulk pipe using the streaming API (issue since v9.01).

• ISA interrupts: Restored support for ISA interrupts (issue since v9.10).
  

• Linux: Resolved WinDriver 64-bit Linux installation crash (issue since v9.10).

• Kernel PlugIn (Linux): Modified the Linux Kernel PlugIn free() function implementation to comply with the method used by the Kernel PlugIn malloc() implementation (issue since v9.10).

New Features:

• PCI interrupts: Added support for Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI) and MSI-X on Windows Vista and Linux.

• PCI Express: Added enhanced support for the Xilinx Virtex 5 PCI Express chip with Bus Mastering DMA Validation Design (BMD) firmware, including library APIs (virtex5_lib) and a sample application (virtex5_diag). The sample demonstrates DMA and Message-Signaled Interrupts (MSI) handling.

• Linux: Added support for the Linux 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 kernels.

• Windows XP Embedded: New Windows XP Embedded WinDriver component (windriver.sld) for automatic driver installation on Windows XP Embedded platforms.

Fixes:

• USB (Linux): Control transfers with no data on Linux previously failed with an invalid parameter error (issue since v9.01).

• USB (Linux): Fixed problems with WDU_Transfer() write (OUT) transfers using large data buffers on Linux (issue since v9.01).

• USB (Windows): Control requests of type 'class' with recipient 'other' were previously transferred as vendor requests.

• Linux: Fixed installation of renamed WinDriver kernel modules using the wdreg script (issue since v9.00).

• Linux: Fixed WinDriver configuration issues with the openSUSE 10.2 Linux distribution.

• Linux: Fixed WinDriver configuration issues with the UBUNTU 7.10 Linux distribution.

• Linux: Added support for OS_get_device_property for WinDriver kernel module builds with the enable-usb-support=no configuration option (issue since v9.00).

• DMA: Fixed WD_DMALock() 64-bit addresses handling on 32-bit Windows and Linux platforms (issue since v8.00).

• DMA (Linux): Fixed memory leak when locking contiguous DMA buffers on Linux platforms (issue since v8.10).

• Kernel PlugIn (Linux): Resolved Kernel PlugIn memory allocation issues on some embedded Linux 2.6 distributions (issue since v7.00)

• DriverWizard (Linux): DriverWizard for Linux is now statically linked with the QT libraries, enabling usage of the wizard on these operating systems regardless of whether the QT libraries have been installed on the target platform (issue since v9.00).

• PCI (Windows and Windows CE): Added WDC_PciScanDevicesByTopology() to the WinDriver API DLL (wdapi<version>.dll) exports (issue since v8.00).

• Fixed the CCString::Format class method to correctly support large strings; as a result, fixed issue with long wdreg log messages on Windows.

New Features:

• Linux: Added support for the Linux 2.6.20 and 2.6.21 kernels.

• USB Streaming API: Added a new function for retrieving a stream's current status - WDU_StreamGetStatus().

Enhancements:

• USB: Added stream transfers performance tests to the WinDriver USB diagnostics sample (usb_diag).

• DriverWizard PCI: The device Plug-and-Play information is now verified when opening existing DriverWizard PCI projects.

• DriverWizard GUI: Added support for displaying DriverWizard in full screen mode in resolutions higher than 1024 x 768 (issue since v9.00).

• DriverWizard: Added support for using DriverWizard with non-English Windows installations.

• DriverWizard: Improved the support for keyboard commands (issue since v9.00).

• Kernel PlugIn: Added digital signature of the sample Windows Kernel PlugIn PCI driver - kp_pci.sys - allowing for a smooth installation of the driver on Windows platforms that prohibit or limit installation of unsigned drivers (e.g. Vista x64).

• USB Streaming API: Added a new WDU_StreamOpen() flag - USB_STREAM_OVERWRITE_BUFFER_WHEN_FULL - for overwriting a read stream's data when there is not enough free space in the stream's data buffer to complete the transfer.

• USB: Enhanced WDU_Transfer() to enable initiation of zero-length transfers by either setting the buffer size to zero or passing a NULL buffer pointer.

• DriverWizard: Added miscellaneous GUI improvements.

Fixes:

• Windows 98: Fixed the driver installation on Windows 98 platforms (issue since v9.00).

• Windows: Fixed compilation of projects containing the UNICODE preprocessor definition (issue since v9.00).

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Fixed compilation of generated code with no transfer commands (issue since v9.00).

• DriverWizard PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Fixed DriverWizard crash when generating code for devices with no interrupts (issue since v9.00).

• Linux PCI: Fixed Scatter/Gather DMA lock for buffers that are not page aligned (issue since v6.20).

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: WDC_Version() can now be called before calling WDC_DriverOpen() (issue since v7.00).

• USB Streaming API: Fixed streaming API cleanup in the case of abnormal application termination (issue since v9.00).

• USB Streaming API: Fixed zero-length transfer crash (issue since v9.00).

• DriverWizard USB: Previously write to pipe would occasionally result in modification of the input data (issue since v9.00).

• DriverWizard USB: Fixed INF generation for multiple-interface devices (issue since v9.00).

• PLX: Fixed the local base address used for master devices in the PLX library (issue since v7.00).

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA Interrupts: Fixed the return value of WD_IntWait().

• Fixed exit cleanup of 32-bit applications on 64-bit architectures (issue since v6.00).

• USB: Enabled use of WDU_GetDeviceRegistryProperty(), WDU_GetDeviceAddr(), and WD_GetDeviceProperty() from 32-bit applications running on 64-bit architectures.

• DriverWizard ISA: Fixed DriverWizard code generation crash (issue since v9.00).

• Windows: Modified the wdreg installation utility to load the Driver Install Frameworks API (DIFxAPI) DLL only when the program is run without the -compat flag (issue since v8.10).

• Windows: Modified the wdreg installation utility to avoid automatic rescan for new hardware when installing the WinDriver kernel module (windrvr6.sys or a renamed version of this driver). (Issue since v8.10).

• DriverWizard PCI/ISA: Added support for opening legacy DriverWizard projects created with earlier versions of WinDriver (issue since v9.00).

• Windows Mobile 5: Fixed the DriverWizard project files code generation (issue since v8.01).

• .NET PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Modified the WinDriver .NET API DLL (wdapi_dotnet<version>.dll) in order to prevent the garbage collector from relocating transfer commands used for interrupt handling while the interrupt is enabled (issue since v7.00).

• USB: Modified the Silicon Laboratories C8051F320 sample (c8051f320_diag) to support buffer sizes that are not multiples of 4KB.

• Windows CE 6.0: Fixed prioritization of interrupts and events (issue since v9.00).

New Features:

• Windows USB: Added streaming API to support synchronous and asynchronous stream transfers on Windows 2000 and higher.

• Windows CE: Added support for Windows Embedded CE 6.00 and Windows Mobile 6.0.

• Linux: Added support for the latest Linux kernels, including 2.6.18, 2.6.19.

• Driver distribution: Added support for changing the name of the WinDriver kernel module on Windows, Linux, and Solaris.

• Windows USB: Integrated the Ellisys Explorer 200 USB bus analyzer into DriverWizard.

• USB on Windows: Added support for selective bus suspend on Windows XP SP2 and higher - new WDU_SelectiveSuspend() function.

• USB on Windows: Added support for port cycling - i.e. device re-enumeration without a physical reset - to the WDU_ResetDevice() function (new CYCLE_PORT flag).

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Added a new WDC_Version() function to the WDC C and .NET libraries, for retrieving the version of the WinDriver kernel module.

Enhancements:

• GUI: Re-designed and improved the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the DriverWizard and Debug Monitor utilities.

• Windows: Upgraded the wdreg installation utility to use the latest version of the Driver Install Frameworks API (DIFxAPI) DLL - difxapi.dll 2.1.0.0.

• Windows 2000 and higher: Tested the WinDriver kernel driver (windrvr6.sys) with the Microsoft Driver Test Manager (DTM) tool, and added a PREfast output file, required for new WHQL certifications, to the Windows distribution.

• Windows: Provide a WHQL-compliant WinDriver kernel driver (windrvr6.sys) for Windows 2000 and higher, and a non-WHQL-compliant driver for Windows 98/Me and higher.

Fixes:

• DMA: Improved handling of 64-bit DMA transfers on 32-bit Windows platforms.

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Fixed behavior of the WD_ITEM_DO_NOT_MAP_KERNEL flag on Windows 98/ME.

• Linux: Fixed access to large memory addresses (> 32-bit) when running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Linux platforms.

• .NET (PCI/PCMCIA/ISA): Modified the WinDriver API DLL (wdapi_dotnet<version>.dll), and the C# PCI sample (PCI_Sample) and PLX library (plx_lib_dotnet), in order to provide specific support for accessing the interrupt transfer commands array from the interrupt handler routine.

• Windows USB: Configuration of USB devices with a large configuration descriptor previously failed with error WD_USB_DESCRIPTOR_ERROR.

• Windows USB: Fixed the maximum size of USB interrupt and bulk (Windows Vista) transfers (previously limited to 4KB).

Known Limitations:

• Windows 98/Me: DriverWizard cannot be used to develop a driver on Windows 98/Me.
  However, a driver developed on Windows 2000 or higher can still be distributed to a Windows 98/Me PC.

New Features:

• Linux: Added support for PowerPC 64-bit architectures on Linux 2.6.x kernels.

• Linux: Added support for Linux kernels 2.6.17 - 2.6.18 and the Fedora Core 6 pre-releases.

• USB: Added enhanced support for the Agere USS2828 USB chip, including library APIs (uss2828_lib and uss2828_diag_lib) and a sample application for the device's default firmware (default_firmware_sample).

Enhancement:

• Windows Vista: WinDriver was tested on Windows Vista Beta2, RC1 and RC2 (x86 and x64).

• USB: Improved the USB sample (usb_diag) and generated DriverWizard code.

• Windows: Improved the wdreg installation utility by utilizing the Driver Install Frameworks API (DIFxAPI) for driver installation, pre-installation and un-installation.

• USB (Windows): Added WDU_Transfer() flag (USB_BULK_INT_URB_SIZE_OVERRIDE_128K) for overriding the maximum size of the USB Request Blocks (URB) on bulk and interrupt pipes.

• Linux and Solaris: Implemented enhancements that were already added for Windows / Windows CE in version 8.0:
  • DMA: Improved the performance of the DMA synchronization functions (WD_DMASyncCpu() / WD_DMASyncIo() / WDC_DMASyncCpu() / WDC_DMASyncIo()).

  • PCI Express: Added support for configuration spaces that are mapped beyond 4GB.

  • USB (Linux): Enhanced the Cypress EZ-USB API, including multiple devices support and a new EZ-USB diagnostics library (ezusb_diag_lib).

  • New ISA sample: Added sample for the Intel 8253/8254 programmable timer chips (available on any IBM PC).

Fixes:

• Linux PCI: Fixed 64-bit memory block transfers on 32-bit x86 Linux architectures.

• Windows PCI: Avoid usage of pageable memory in interrupt.

• Linux: Fixed installation problem on some Linux 2.6.15 kernels.

• Backward compatibility (PCI): Fixed the ability to use old WinDriver PCI applications with a newer WinDriver kernel module (issue since v8.00).

• Windows CE: Fixed compilation of applications that use the enhanced interrupts option.

• DMA: Fixed the AMCC library's DMA API (WinDriver/amcc/lib/amcclib.c).

• VB.NET (Windows): Fixed automatic insertion of the WinDriver license registration string into the generated VB.NET DriverWizard code.

• Windows USB: Re-plugging a USB device immediately after unplugging it could previously result in a crash

• Linux and Solaris: Implemented fixes that were already added for Windows / Windows CE in version 8.0:
  • Kernel PlugIn: Fixed memory leak in Kernel PlugIn initialization.

  • Kernel PlugIn: Interrupts are now automatically disabled when an application is aborted.

  • DMA: Fixed DMA handling for 32-bit applications running on 64-bit architectures (Linux AMD64 / Solaris SPARC64).

New Features:

• Added support for Windows Vista Beta 2 (and later) for x86 and x64.

• Windows: Added a WinDriver symbol file (windrvr6.pdb) to the WinDriver distribution, required for getting your driver digitally signed with Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL).

• WinDriver USB Device (Firmware Development Kit): Added support for compiling Microchip PIC18F4550 firmware with version 3.04 of the MCC18 compiler.

Enhancement:

• DMA: Improved the performance of the DMA synchronization functions (WD_DMASyncCpu() / WD_DMASyncIo() / WDC_DMASyncCpu() / WDC_DMASyncIo()).

• PCI Express: Added support for configuration spaces that are mapped beyond 4GB.

• USB: Enhanced the Cypress EZ-USB API, including multiple devices support and a new EZ-USB diagnostics library (ezusb_diag_lib).

• Windows: Improved the wdreg.exe installation utility in order to comply with the requirements of Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL).

• New ISA sample: Added sample for the Intel 8253/8254 programmable timer chips (available on any IBM PC).

• .NET: Modified namespaces names to include a "Jungo" prefix.

• Windows CE: Changed the location of the wdapi<version>.lib WinDriver API library.

Fixes:

• Kernel PlugIn: Fixed memory leak in Kernel PlugIn initialization.

• Kernel PlugIn: Interrupts are now automatically disabled when an application is aborted.

• Windows USB: Fixed handling of isochronous transfers for buffers smaller than 8 bytes.

• Windows USB: Issuing a read (IN) control command with no data stage from DriverWizard previously blocked.

• Windows CE USB: Disabling of shared interrupts no longer affects other drivers listening to the shared interrupt.

• Windows CE USB: Fixed reset pipe toggle mismatch issues.

• DMA: Fixed DMA handling for 32-bit applications running on 64-bit architectures (issue since v8.00).

• Windows PCI: Multi-transfer functions (WD_MultiTransfer() / WDC_MultiTransfer()) now also handle mask commands (CMD_MASK) when called from 32-bit applications that are run on 64-bit architectures (issue since v8.00).

Obsolete Features:

• Stopped support for Windows NT 4.0.
• Linux: Stopped support for the Intel Itanium and Itanium 2 architectures (IA64).

New Features:

• Added support for Windows Mobile 5.0.

• Linux: Added support for kernels 2.6.14 - 2.6.16.

• WinDriver USB Device (Firmware Development Kit): Added support for the Silicon Laboratories C8051F340 development board.

• Windows CE: Added a WinDriver component to the Platform Builder catalogue to simplify the driver deployment.

• WinDriver USB Device (Firmware Development Kit): Added support for compiling Microchip PIC18F4550 firmware with version 3.0 of the MCC18 compiler.

Enhancement:

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Improved the performance of WD_Transfer() and WD_MultiTransfer() and the WDC APIs that use these functions (WDC_Read/WriteXXX(), WDC_AddrXXX() and WDC_MultiTransfer()).

• USB (Windows): Improved performance of USB transfers for high-speed devices on Windows XP and Server 2003.

• PCI (Linux): The maximum contiguous DMA buffer size is no longer restricted to 128KB.

• Improved the precision of WD_Sleep() for small sleep values.

Fixes:

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Fixed and improved the clean-up functionality: Improved the performance of WD_CardCleanup() / WDC_CardCleanupSetup() and ensured that the clean-up commands set in the calls to these functions are executed as the first thing upon termination of a WinDriver application.

• DMA: Fixed locking of unaligned scatter-gather DMA buffers on Linux.

• Windows 64-bit: Fixed DMA and interrupt issues when running 32-bit applications on 64-bit systems (issue since v8.00).

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Enhancement:

• .NET USB (Windows): Added support for simultaneous communication with multiple interfaces on the same USB device.

• Windows: The PCI Express configuration space can now be accessed even if no INF file has been installed for the device.

• Windows: Improved handling of devices with resources filtered by an INF file or a filter driver.

• Solaris: The remove_windrvr WinDriver uninstallation script now removes all installation traces from the install_windrvr installation script.

• Linux: Added an auto option to the wdreg driver installation script to enable automatic detection of udev support on the target platform.

Fixes:

• DMA: Fixed usage of the DMA synchronization functions (WD_DMASyncIo() / WDC_DMASyncIo() / WD_DMASyncCpu() / WDC_DMASyncCpu()) from 32-bit applications running on 64-bit kernels (Windows x64 / Linux x86_64 / Solaris SPARC64).

• Linux: Fixed WinDriver installation on some Linux 2.4 kernels (issue since v8.00).

• PCMCIA (Windows): Fixed behavior of WDC_PcmciaSetWindow()
  (issue since v7.00).

• .NET (Windows): Fixed PCI events handling under .NET Framework 2.0
  (issue since v8.00).

• .NET (Windows): Fixed the .NET implementation of the WDU_GetLangIDs() and WDU_GetStringDesc() functions.

• .NET (Windows): Fixed the PLX MSDEV 2003 .NET solution file (issue since v8.00).

• .NET (Windows): PCI C# sample -- fixed the behavior of PCI_Device.Open() in the event of an error (issue since v8.00).

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New Features:

• Windows: Added support for Windows XP Pro x64 and Windows Server 2003 x64 on the AMD64 and Intel EM64T architectures (''x64'').
• Windows: Added support for Visual Studio 2005 on x86 and AMD64, including sample and generated DriverWizard C, C# and Visual Basic .NET projects.

  Note: As a result of this addition, the directories structure of the WinDriver C and .NET sample and generated DriverWizard projects has changed.

• Linux: Added support for the Intel Itanium and Itanium 2 architectures (IA64).
• Linux: Added support for Linux 2.6.14.
• Solaris: Added support for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris.
• WinDriver USB Device (Firmware Development Kit): Added support for development of device firmware for the Philips PDIUSBD12.
• WinDriver USB Device (Firmware Development Kit): Added mass storage class support for the Microchip PIC18F4550 development board.
• .NET (Windows): Added DriverWizard code generation in C# (USB and PCI) and Visual Basic .NET (USB).
• .NET (Windows): Added a .NET PCI sample in C#.
• USB: Added samples for the Philips PDIUSBD12.

Enhancements:

• Windows USB: Added support for simultaneous communication with multiple interfaces on the same USB device.

• DMA: Added support for 64-bit DMA addresses on Windows, Linux and Solaris (new DMA_ALLOW_64BIT_ADDRESS DMA flag).

• .NET (Windows): Added support for communication with a Kernel PlugIn driver from a .NET application, including:
  • New WDC_KernelPlugInOpen() function for opening a handle to a Kernel PlugIn driver.
  • Added DriverWizard code generation of user-mode applications that communicate with a Kernel PlugIn driver.
  • Modified the PLX .NET library APIs to support communication with a Kernel PlugIn driver.
    

• DriverWizard: Added option to call the generated DriverWizard read/write registers functions from the Kernel PlugIn.

• Added versioning of the WinDriver libraries, DLLs and shared objects.
  This change required the following file name changes:
  • wd_utils.dll -> wdapi<version>.dll (e.g. wdapi800.dll)
  • libwd_utils.so -> libwdapi<version>.so (e.g. libwdapi800.so)
  • wdapi_dotnet.dll -> wdapi_dotnet<version>.dll (e.g. wdapi_dotnet800.dll)
  • kp_nt.lib -> kp_nt<version>.lib (e.g. kp_nt800.lib)
  • kp_linux.o -> kp_linux<version>.o (e.g. kp_linux800.o)
  • kp_solaris.o -> kp_solaris<version>.o (e.g. kp_solaris800.o)

• Moved the location of WinDriver's source files under the WinDriver installation directory:
  • The WinDriver C source files were moved from the src/ directory to the src/wdapi/ directory.
  • The WinDriver .NET source files were moved from the wdapi.net/ directory to the src/wdapi.net/ directory.

• DMA: Added support for locking bi-directional DMA buffers (new DMA_TO_FROM_DEVICE DMA flag).

• PCI: Added option to scan the PCI bus by topology (new WD_PCI_SCAN_BY_TOPOLOGY flag and WDC_PciScanDevicesByTopology() function).

• USB on Windows CE: Added support for WDU_ResetDevice() on Windows CE 5.0.

• Solaris: Added support for allocation of a contiguous DMA buffer that is not associated with a specific card (already supported on other OSs).

Fixes:

• USB: Fixed set interface to the same alternate setting number as the active alternate setting but with a different interface.

• USB on Windows: WDU_Transfer() and WDU_TransferIsoch() do not allow zero-sized transfers on isochronous pipes.

• USB on Windows: Fixed situation whereby Windows restarted when waking up from a hibernation state that was entered into while listening on an isochronous pipe.

• WinDriver USB Device (Firmware Development Kit): Fixed double buffering in the Microchip PIC18F4550 code.

• Delphi (Windows): Fixed and improved the sample and generated Delphi code.

• Linux: Prevent removal of a Kernel PlugIn driver while it is being used.

• Linux: Improved the support for IOMMU mapped DMA buffers.

• Interrupts: Fixed interrupt masking so that the execution of the deferred interrupt processing is dependent on the result of the mask commands (issue since v7.02).

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New Features:

• WinDriver USB Device (Firmware Development Kit): Added support for the Microchip PIC18F4550 development board.
  

• PCI interrupts: Added option to define an interrupt mask in the kernel-mode interrupt transfer commands.
  

• USB Microchip PIC18F4550 development board:
  • Added a bootloader_demo sample, which utilizes the bootloader firmware on the board to load firmware *.hex files and program the device.
  • Added a WinDriver diagnostics library for the board (pic18f4550_diag_lib).

• Linux: Added backward support for 2.4x Linux kernels on x86 64-bit platforms.
  

Enhancements:

• Linux: Added support for 2.6.13 kernels.
  

• WinDriver USB Device: Added API for initializing and accessing the I2C interface and for controlling the digit LED on the Cypress EZ-USB FX2LP CY7C68013A development board.
  

• .NET (Windows): Improved the PLX C# library (plx_lib_dotnet) and sample diagnostics application (PLX_Sample).
  

• PLX: Modified the interrupt APIs in the PLX libraries (plx_lib - C ; plx_lib_dotnet - C#) to use the new interrupt mask feature.
  

• DriverWizard (Windows): Added automatic association of .wdp files with DriverWizard.
  

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Prevent locking of non-shared overlapping memory/IO regions on a card.
  

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA on Windows NT 4.0/2k/XP/Server 2003 and CE: Allow mapping of physical PC memory (RAM) as cached, using the new WD_ITEM_ALLOW_CACHE flag.
  

• 64-bit Linux and Solaris: Added a 32-bit version of the wd_utils shared object to the 64-bit WinDriver distributions.
  

• Linux: Updated the WinDriver configuration files to support the SuSE distribution.
  

• USB: Modified and improved the Microchip PIC18F4550 library (pic18f4550_lib) and default_firmware_demo sample and moved the location of the library.
  

• USB on Windows: Device enumeration now succeeds also for USB devices with missing endpoint descriptors.
  

Fixes:

• DriverWizard USB: Fixed listen to isochronous pipes on low- and full-speed devices on Windows.
  

• PCI: Added Kernel PlugIn support for the WDC PCI configuration space APIs.
  

• USB on Linux: WDU_Transfer() with a time-out of zero now performs an infinite wait instead of returning immediately.
  

• Linux: CPU consumption for non-busy sleep, using WD_Sleep(), was reduced to a minimum.
  

• Windows: Eliminated error messages that appeared when running Microsoft's DriverVerifier utility (verifier.exe) together with WinDriver.
  

• .NET (Windows): Added the wdapi_dotnet.cpp file to the wdapi_dotnet DLL's project file (wdapi_dotnet.vcproj).
  

• .NET (Windows): C# .NET PLX library project file (plx_lib.csproj) fixed to point to log.cs instead of diag_lib.cs.
  

• WDU_Transfer() no longer allows a non-zero buffer size (dwBufferSize) when the buffer pointer (pBuffer) is NULL, and vice versa.
  

• Windows 98/Me: wdreg16.exe now enables replacing an older version of WinDriver without first uninstalling the old windrvr6.sys driver.
  

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New Features:

• .NET (Windows):
  • Added a new .NET managed extensions for C++ WinDriver DLL (wdapi_dotnet.dll).
  • Added a new PLX .NET C# DLL (plx_lib_dotnet.dll) and GUI sample (PLX_Sample).
  • Added a new USB .NET C# DLL (usb_lib_dotnet.dll).

• USB: Added sample for the Microchip PIC18F4550 development board.

• WinDriver USB Device (Windows): Added framework for vendor control requests in the sample and generated code.

• Solaris: Added API for performing CPU and I/O caches DMA synchronization.

• Kernel PlugIn (PCI/ISA) on Solaris: Added synchronization APIs, which include spinlocks and interlocked operations, for single and multiple CPU systems.

Enhancements:

• Windows CE: The generated DriverWizard code now also includes Platform Builder 5.0 XML project files.
  

• Solaris and Windows CE: Modified and improved the samples and generated DriverWizard code in accordance with the Windows and Linux sample and generated code, including use of the new wd_utils DLL/shared object and the WDC API.
  

• Linux and Solaris: Added the wd_utils makefile to the WinDriver distribution.
  

• Windows: Modified and improved the .NET USB C# and Visual Basic samples. The samples now use the new wdapi_dotnet.dll and usb_lib_dotnet.dll DLLs, which replaced the wdnetlib.dll DLL from v7.00 of WinDriver (see the New Features).
  

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: The generated DriverWizard C code now defines an enumeration of all local registers defined in the wizard and includes functions for reading and writing these custom registers.
  

• PLX: Modified the PLX_DMAStart() library function to enable repeated continuous use for Scatter/Gather DMA.
  

• Improved sample and generated DriverWizard C source code and makefiles to facilitate code porting across the supported operating systems.
  

Fixes:

• WinDriver USB Device (Windows): Fixed bulk data toggle synchronization (originated in v7.00).
  

• USB on Linux: Fixed high-speed isochronous transfers.
  

• USB on Linux 2.4: Fixed interrupt transfer mechanism.
  

• USB on Windows: Fixed WDU_Transfer() to enable writing read-only data buffers to the device.
  

• USB on Windows: Diminish effects of bad firmware by eliminating system halts and crashes in cases of invalid device descriptors.
  

• Windows CE: Enable access to the main thread's memory space from other threads in the process (including from the interrupt handler).
  

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Added a new WDC_CardCleanupSetup() function and replaced the pDeviceCleanup parameter of WDC_xxxDeviceOpen() with a reserved parameter (originated in v7.00).
  

• USB on Linux: Fixed support for multiple-interface USB devices.
  

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Avoid use of global handles in the generated DriverWizard code and pci_diag and pcmcia_diag samples.
  

• Windows 2k/XP/Server 2003: Enable ''Start Device'' mechanism on all platforms.
  

• wd_utils: Eliminated previous dependency on windrvr_hotswap.c APIs (originated in v7.00).
  

• USB: Minor fixes to the sample and generated USB code; main() now returns a relevant error code in case of a failure.
  

• Fixed link errors when attempting to build the sample and generated DriverWizard C code in C++ mode.
  

• Windows 98/Me: Fixed WinDriver registration licenses (originated in v7.00).
  

• PCI/PCMCIA/ISA: Fixed generated DriverWizard C interrupt code. Previously the code always used the first register assigned to the interrupt in the wizard (originated in v7.00).
  

• USB on Windows: Fixed rare crash that could occur when a device was un-plugged immediately after being plugged-in.
  

• USB on Windows CE: Prevent possible situation of inability to access USB devices if the device was connected to the target platform before Windows CE was loaded (originated in v6.23).
  

• USB on Windows: Fixed compatibility issue with the old WinDriver WD_UsbScanDevice() function, whereby the function returned the actual interface number when it should have returned WD_SINGLE_INTERFACE (originated in v7.00).
  

• USB on Windows: Fixed system halt that previously occurred if the transfer timed-out before the actual transfer began.
  

• Windows CE: WD_DMALock() previously failed when called for cards that have not been registered with the PCI bus driver in the registry (originated in v6.23).
  

• USB on Windows: DriverWizard previously identified USB devices that have been registered with WinDriver as not configured to work with WinDriver if the device was being used when the wizard created the devices list.
  

• DriverWizard: Fixed bug whereby if multiple register access commands to the same register were assigned to the interrupt in the wizard, only the last command was saved in the *.wdp DriverWizard project.
  
• DriverWizard: Fixed parallel port code generation (originated in v7.00)
  

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New Features:

• WinDriver USB Device (Windows): Added support for development of device firmware for the Cypress EZ-USB FX2LP CY7C68013A development board.

• Added support for accessing the PCI Express extended configuration space.

• Linux: Added support for x86 64-bit architectures: AMD64 and Intel EM64T ("x86_64") on Linux 2.6.x kernels.

• Linux PowerPC: Added support for the Linux 2.6.x kernels.

• WinDriver Card (WDC) Library: New convenience wrapper APIs that simplify the development for PCI/PCMCIA/CardBus/ISA/ISAPnP/EISA/CompactPCI and PCI Express devices.

• Windows: Added .NET USB samples in C# and Visual Basic .NET.

• PCI/PCMCIA: Added API for performing CPU and I/O caches DMA synchronization.

• PCMCIA (Windows): Added API for modifying the settings of the PCMCIA bus controller.

• Kernel PlugIn (PCI/ISA/PCMCIA): Added synchronization APIs, which include spinlocks and interlocked operations, for single and multiple CPU systems.

Enhancements:

• Windows: Improved WinDriver's installation and un-installation procedures.

• Use the wd_utils DLL (Windows: wd_utils.dll; Linux: libwd_utils.so) in the sample and generated DriverWizard Linux projects and Windows Borland C++ Builder projects.

• Improved the sample and generated PCI/PCMCIA/ISA code (using the new WDC API):
  • PLX: Added new shared library (plx_lib) for the enhanced-support PLX chipsets - 9030, 9050, 9052, 9054, 9056,9080, 9656 - and improved the specific samples for these chipsets.
  • New PCMCIA diagnostics sample (pcmcia_diag).
  • New shared- PCI/PCMCIA/ISA C diagnostics API (diag_lib, wdc_diag_lib).
  • New Kernel PlugIn PCI sample (kp_pci) (replaces the previous kptest Kernel PlugIn sample).
  • Improved the generated DriverWizard C code.
  • Modified the generic PCI C samples (pci_diag,pci_diag, pci_scan, pci_dump)

• PCI/ISA/PCMCIA: Added an option to avoid mapping of PCI/ISA/PCMCIA memory resources to the kernel-mode (map the resources only to the user-mode virtual address space). This allows registration of large memory ranges without overburdening the system.
  NOTE: By default, WinDriver attempts to map a device's memory resources both to user-mode and to kernel mode (as done in previous versions).

• Linux PowerPC: For memory transfers, WinDriver's transfer APIs
  (WD_Transfer() / WD_MultiTransfer() / the WDC read/write APIs) now perform automatic byte-ordering translations (big/little endian).

Fixes:

• Linux: Fixed and improved the support for the Linux 2.6.x kernels.

• Linux: Fixed memory leaks.

• USB (Windows): Fixed crash when WDU_Transfer() / WDU_TransferIsoch() was called with the USB_ISOCH_NOASAP flag (bug since v6.23).

• USB (Windows): Isochronous pipes listen from the DriverWizard, or using the usb_diag sample or generated DriverWizard code, previously failed for some USB host controllers and on high-speed devices.

• USB: The usb_diag sample and generated DriverWizard DeviceAttach() function now uses the active alternate setting of the attached device instead of alternate setting 0 used in previous versions.

• USB (Linux 2.4.x kernels): Fixed crash for EHCI interrupt transfers with intervals of less than 8 frames.

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Enhancements:

• PCMCIA: Added implementation of writing to PCMCIA attribute space.

Fixes:

• WinDriver USB for Windows:
  • Improved SET_INTERFACE command mechanism.
  • Improved Windows USB driver unloading mechanism.
  • Windows USB: Added support for USB device disconnection during the enumeration stage.

• HID: Improved read mechanism by allowing read requests with no time limitation.

• Windows: Improved compatibility with Microsoft's WHQL tests mechanism.

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New Features:

• Added support for Windows CE 5.0.

• Added support for USB 2.0.

Enhancements:

• Improved Plug-and-Play support.

• Samples: All samples completely support Platform Builder.

• Improved interrupt latency.

• USB: Significantly improved isochronous handling for USB 1.1 and 2.0.

• USB: Support permanent registration of USB devices in the registry.

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New Features:

• Added support for PowerPC on Linux 2.4.

• Added enhanced USB support for Silicon Laboratories' C8051F320 USB board.

• Added support for PCMCIA cards on Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003.

Enhancements:

• Linux: New installation mechanism, which creates a makefile based either on the user's specific running kernel or on another installed kernel source, according to the user's specification.

• Debug: Added an All sections check box to the Debug Monitor utility (wddebug_gui), allowing users to check/clear all debug sections in a single click.

• Debug: Added a Plug-and-Play debug section to the Debug Monitor utility (wddebug_gui), enabling users to monitor the PnP section separately.

• PLX: Added support for soft reset of PLX 9054-compatible boards.

• PLX: Updated the support for EEPROM access via VPD mechanism in PLX 9030, 9054 ,9056 and 9656 samples.

• PLX 9054: Added support for DMA_LARGE_BUFFER in the samples.

• Wizard (PCI/PCMCIA/ISA): Added display of the offset for each register.

• USB: Added new WDU_GetLangIDs() API function, which returns the supported language IDs and/or the number of supported language IDs of a device.

• USB: Added new WDU_GetStringDesc() API function, which reads a string descriptor from device by string index.

• PCI: Added endianess conversion functions, which resolve the little/big-endian issue when accessing PCI devices using memory mapped range. These functions allow a platform-independent view of the data.

Fixes:

• Solaris: WinDriver now detects and releases "zombie" processes that hold open WinDriver handles.

• Wizard (PCI/PCMCIA/ISA): 64-bit registers are now handled in the wizard in addition to the code generation.

• USB: Stabilized USB transfers by eliminating previous crashes.

• PCI: Fixed a minor backwards compatibility problem.

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Enhancements:

• PCI/ISA: Added an API to enable card cleanup handling upon an application's termination.

• Debugging: Simplified usage of console-mode WDDEBUG.

• Windows: Improved wdreg.exe installation utility.

• June 1, 2004: Released WinDriver ISA/PCI/USB for Linux PowerPC.

• June 16, 2004: Released WinDriver USB NT version 5.11:
  • Added support for OHCI Controllers.
  • Added return value to WD_Transfer API.
  • Stabilized USB stack.
  • WinDriver has been tested on a considerably wider range of hardware.

• December 6, 2004: Released WinDriver USB NT version 5.12.

Fixes:

• USB: Fixed multi-interface USB device INF generation and installation/uninstallation from the DriverWizard.

• 64-bit platforms: The wizard now correctly displays the I/O resources of PCI devices.

• Linux: Previously had a problem with locking DMA for reading.

• All Platforms: Improved access to PCI configuration space and reduced overhead.

• Windows USB: Resolved previous crash in the case of shortage in memory resources. WinDriver now exits and sends an error message.

• Solaris: Fixed crash that occurred when versions of Kernel PlugIn and WinDriver did not match.

• Linux: Previously older versions of Linux distribution did not support WinDriver graphics.

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New Features:

• Support for Linux kernel 2.6

• Added the option to start developing your driver before your PCI hardware is available

• Added the option to log all WinDriver API calls using the DriverWizard

• Added enhanced USB support for Texas Instruments' TUSB3410, TUSB3210, TUSB2136 and TUSB5052 chips (download firmware samples)

• Support for 32-bit and 64-bit Solaris 8-9 on SPARC

• Support for 32-bit Solaris 8-9 on x86

• Support for 32-bit user applications on 64-bit Solaris kernel

Enhancements:

• USB: Significantly improved isochronous handling for USB 1.1 and 2.0.

• SPARC Solaris DMA: Added support for Scatter/Gather DMA and mapping of contiguous kernel buffer to user-mode on SPARC platforms.

• x86 Solaris DMA: Added support for Scatter/Gather Dma and Contiguous Buffer DMA on x86 platforms.

• Windows: Improved power management support.

• Windows: Improved USB cancelation mechanism.

• USB: Added examples of standard control transfer requests to the wizard.

• Windows: Improved *.sys and INF files to help pass WHQL tests.

• USB: usb_diag sample and generated code now has basic support for multiple devices.

• PLX samples: Sample code with implementation of DMA transfer was added to p9054_diag.c.

• WDREG/WDREG16 utility: Enables use of the relative path to the INF file.

• Code: Kernel PlugIn Wizard generated code now demonstrates direct memory access when all access registers assigned to the interrupt in the wizard are memory registers.

• Code: Improved generated and sample code to prevent errors when compiling in C++ mode
  with Borland C++ Builder and reduced warnings.

• USB: Added new WD_GetDeviceProperty API function, which allows retrieving of specific device properties like WDU_GetDeviceAddr, for example (on Windows only).

• Samples: Added MSDEV .NET (7.0) project files to all WinDriver samples, including the enhanced support samples.

• User-mode API wrappers provided as DLL for MSDEV .NET environment.

• DMA: Added new DMA flags to WinDriver API, improving the data consistency.

• Wizard: Added Cancel License Registration option, which enables evaluation on a PC on which a registered license was previously used.

Fixes:

• Solaris: Reduced Sun's cc compilation warning and fixed compilation errors.

• PLX sample EEPROM: The EEPROM was erroneously treated as a regular memory space.
• INF: The INF-create dialog in the wizard automatically suggests to create a multiple interface INF file.

• Multiple interface USB devices: The wizard now displays both registered and unregistered interfaces.

• WDREG utility: The WDREG utility can uninstall/enable/disable multiple interface devices.

• Windows Delphi USB: Improved generated and sample code.

• USB generated/sample C code: Improved generated and sample code.

• Windows Visual Basic and Delphi generated ISA code: Improved generated and sample code.
• Wizard: minor GUI fixes.

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New Features:

• Support for ARM-based platforms on Windows CE.

• Support for USB remote wakeup feature.

Enhancements:

• USB: Improved bulk transfer rates on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

• USB: Added device reset and wakeup functions.

Fixes:

• Visual Basic USB sample and generated code: Now handles usage of unsigned values when the value of vendor and product IDs might exceed 32,767 (since v6.00).

• Visual Basic USB sample and generated code: Fixed the default alternate setting number in the generated code which was previously set to the selected interface number (since v6.00).

• Visual Basic USB sample and generated code: Fixed flawed implementation of ListenToPipe() function and related functions, due to lack of good support for multi-threading and CreateThread() in VB (specifically VB 6.0). ThreadStart/Stop Visual Basic functions are now replaced with VB_ThreadLoopStart/Stop DLL functions and Listen loop runs in the DLL (not in the user thread function).

• Delphi USB: Previously, in PrintEndpoints() function in usb_diag_lib.pas sample, endpoints data was inaccurate and the application terminated if there were zero endpoints (since v6.00).

• Delphi USB: Fixed DLL thread functions usage, resolved previous problems with Listen to Pipe function (since v6.00).

• Linux 2.4: Resolved previous problem, where on some computers there was a failure in reading from the PCI card's memory (read only 0xffffffff). The problem is resolved by calling pci_enable_device() function.

• Windows CE: Improved implementations of spinlock and events.

• PLX samples: Resolved previous application error caused by read/write from local addresses due to miscalculation of dwMask (since v6.00).

• VxD drivers: Resolved problem of installation using WDREG on Windows 98/Me, and fixed an incorrectly displayed error message (since v6.00).

• wdreg16.exe: Increased stack size in the makefile to fix an application crash that previously occurred on some Windows Me/98 platforms.

• WHQL tests: In order to pass WHQL tests, changed the code to avoid access to unknown buffer if an invalid IOCTL is received.

• WHQL tests: In order to pass WHQL tests, initialized Plug and Play IRP status.

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New Features:

• Support for Windows Server 2003.

• Support for Windows CE.NET 4.2.

• Windows CE support for MIPS processors.

• Delphi: support for new USB API, including sample code and wizard code generation.

• Support for Linux kernel 2.4.20.

Enhancements:

• Windows: In the Debug Monitor (wddebug_gui or wddebug) an extra functionality was added to the Send debug messages to kernel debugger option. When enabled, WinDriver debug messages will be sent to the kernel debugger during WinDriver activation in the next boot.

• Minor code improvements in Visual Basic PCI, ISA and USB code generation.

Fixes:

• When updating a driver for a non-plugged device, wdreg previously performed successfully but returned an error status code.

• Linux kernel 2.4.20: Now fully supported after having experienced compilation problems.

• Linux: Resolved installation problems on multi-processor (SMP) systems.

• Linux: Improved Scatter/Gather DMA support to correctly handle HIGHMEM.

• Linux: Resolved previous crash in the case of repeated allocations of small Contiguous DMA buffers with WD_DMALock() calls.

• Linux: Fixed problems related to simultaneous usage of WinDriver v6.0X and WinDriver v5.22 or lower on the same PC. (since v6.00).

• Wizard USB projects (*.wdp files): Disabled Save option. This option is no longer supported beginning with v6.00 (since it has no real significance), but was inadvertently still enabled in the wizard in v6.00-6.01 (since v6.00).

• USB generated code: Solved the problem where code generated in v5.22 or lower and rebuilt with v6.0X failed to activate event_register() (since v6.00).

• Windows: Previously (from v6.00), on rare occasions WD_UsbTransfer() and potentially WD_IntWait() returned incorrect error status/caused a system crash.

• Windows: windrvr6.inf no longer demands an IRQ from Windows, and the memory range from which 1 byte was taken has been expanded, fixing WinDriver installation failure on some machines (since v6.00).

• Windows: Resolved memory leak that occurred when the API function WDU_transfer() was cancelled or had exited as a result of a timeout (since v6.00).

• WDREG: Previous junk messages and WDREG crashes have been eliminated (since v6.00).

• Visual Basic ISA code generation: Resolved previous compilation errors (bug since v6.00).

• Visual Basic USB sample and code generation: Fixed potential memory leak in PrintDeviceConfigurations() library function.

• PLX9656 sample diagnostics application: DMA test fixed (since v6.00).

• Reduced porting problems of applications generated prior to v6.00.

• WINCE .NET: WinDriver's debug messages are sent in all cases to the kernel debugger when this option is enabled.

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New Features:

• wdreg source code supplied.

• STMicroelectronics USB HID samples: for USB/Serial bridge (st/rs232u) and for 92163 USB Evaluation Kit (st/92163).

Enhancements:

• Wizard: The wizard does not freeze when installing an INF file.

• Wizard: Allow large files to be read in the "File to Pipe" option in the USB transfer dialog.

• Visual Basic: Improved VB generated/sample code.

• Added log option to the wdreg installation utility.

Fixes:

• When updating a driver for a non-plugged device, wdreg previously performed successfully but returned an error status code.

• Windows: USB Transfer functions now return to the caller when short USB bulk / interrupt transfer arrives, instead of waiting for the entire buffer to be filled.

• Windows CE: During CE startup, CE tried to load the wrong dll (windrvr.dll instead of windrvr6.dll).

• Windows 98: Copy newdev.dll to user's computer if does not exist. (This DLL is required for detecting the connected USB devices and for installing INF files for these devices).

• Linux USB: Interrupt transfer could cause a crash due to incorrect pipe type detection in the case of transfer failure.

• Linux USB: Linux occasionally returned incorrect error status.

• Linux USB: Fixed handling of devices with multiple interfaces.

• Visual Basic: Fixed Stat2Str() VB implementation (in wd_utils.cls) for correct handling of string transfers between C DLL and VB application.

• Visual Basic USB: Corrected function declarations in wd_utils.cls.

• Visual Basic PCI: Generated code: Fixed WD_License() call by adding a NULL character to the end of the license string that is sent to the function, so that it will be interpreted as an ANSI string by the C DLL.

• USB Delphi code generation is now disabled in the DriverWizard (not supported from v6.00).

• WDU_SetInterface returns specific error status code (previously returned WD_SYSTEM_INTERNAL_ERROR for every error).

• Version 6.00 Installation Bug: Installation failed if the file path contained blank spaces (e.g. Installing WinDriver under the "Program Files" directory).

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New Features:

• Added support for USB on Linux.

• Added support for USB and PCI on WindowsCE.NET.

• Added code generation for Visual Basic 6.0 (also added a USB VB sample).

• Added support for Visual Studio .NET project generation.

• Added user-mode APIs for USB HID devices.

• Improved APIs for USB on all operating systems.

Enhancements:

• Added return values for all WD_xxx() functions for improved error handling.

• Added support for DMA APIs for Windows CE.

• QuickLogic files added to the standard distribution. Replaced the old V3 files.

• Moved function implementation from include/windrvr_int_thread.h to src/ directory,

• Replaced wd_vb.dll with wd_utils.dll.

• Added pKernelAddr to WD_DMA struct. For Contiguous Buffer DMA, WD_DMALock() returns the kernel mapping of the allocated buffer in dma.pKernelAddr.

Fixes:

• Replaced installation/uninstallation method of windrvr.sys om WDM Windows. As a result - changed windrvr to windrvr6 on all Operating Systems. windrvr6 is not binary compatible with windrvr.

• Fixed power change handling on Windows - enabling automatic resetting of interfaces on USB devices after recovering from standby state.

• Fixed wizard and wddebug_GUI icons on Linux.

• When failing to register a device - the parallel port sample in Visual Basic will not spawn infinite message boxes.

• Fixed Delphi compilation error when range checking turned on.

• Fixed Windows NT/2000/XP crash that occurred after 0x80000000 interrupts on semaphore_release that nobody waited on

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New Features:

• Added support for Linux kernels compiled with gcc 3.x (e.g. RedHat 8.0).

• Added windrvr_isr() hook on VxWorks to allow the user to add code to an interrupt handler.

• Added enabling of PCI bus mastering on Linux to solve a problem with several bioses that do not support this natively.

Enhancements:

• Improved support for USB composite devices performing control transfers

• WinDriver and KernelDriver documentation improved, including restructuring, many contents fixes and useful additions.

Fixes:

• Windows
  • Fixed a bug in WDREG utility, which caused to fail on Windows 95.

• Linux
  • Fixed the generated Kernel PlugIn makefile on Linux. Previously in some cases "make install" would install the wrong files. Also the makefile now identifies various problems during the installation and automatically fixes them.

• USB
  • Solved BSOD that occasionally occurred on extraction of USB devices, while performing isochronous transfer.

  • Solved synchronization problem that sometimes cause BSOD with USB devices.

• KernelDriver
  • Fixed a bug in KernelDriver's function KD_OpenWinDriver() in kd.lib, on Win32 platforms. Previously only the first call to this function was successful, while consequent calls would fail.

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Enhancements:

• Several transfer commands that acknowledge an interrupt/for interrupt acknowledgement can now be set in the DriverWizard.

• Improvement of Debug Monitor buffer overflow behavior, so that older messages are lost rather than new messages.

• Added DMA_ALLOW_CACHE option to WD_DMALock. It allows the locked memory on Windows NT, 2000 and XP to be cached to the CPU, thereby achieving a major increase in DMA speed (however it may cause data corruption).

• WinDriver can now automatically install an INF file for a device which is not connected to the computer.

• KernelDriver can now be loaded prior to loading WINDRVR.SYS.

Fixes:

• General
  • Fixed a bug that caused memory corruption and BSOD on Win2000/XP, when performing contiguous DMA and calling WD_DMAUnlock.
  • Fixed BSOD when KernelDriver calls WD_IntCount from high IRQL (usually the function is called from windrvr_int_thread.h ISR).
  • Fixed BSOD in cases when a LOT of interrupts (2^31) are generated but no application/driver is registered to listen to them.
  • Fixed a bug that caused a potential for BSOD on each call to the Kernel PlugIn (especially on checked build when using Microsoft Driver Verifier).
  • Fixed a bug that caused Cypress EZ-USB firmware download to fail (especially if re-compiled).
  • Fixed bugs in the support for Visual Basic and Delphi, which caused compilation errors.
  • Fixed Scatter/Gather DMA handling on Linux, which gave wrong byte count to first and last pages.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the XXX_CountDevices function in the USB generated code to fail.
  • Fixed a bug in the Kernel PlugIn installation, which caused the Kernel PlugIn to fail to start after reboot.

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New features:

• Added Plug-and-Play and power management handling, both at the kernel and at the user level. This allows compliance with Windows Driver Model (WDM) functionality.

• Added 64-bit data transfer on x86 machines. This feature enables utilizing new 64bit busses on existing 32bit Windows and Linux operating systems, thereby getting maximum performance for drivers.

• DriverWizard now generates Kernel PlugIn code.

• Added enhanced support for PLX Technology's new product line, the PCI 9656 I/O Accelerator chip. The enhanced support includes special set of API which implements PLX 9656 access and control, as well as sample application, which can be used as a skeletal driver.

• KernelDriver now supports generating drivers using all versions of DDK for all Windows operating systems, with extended support for Visual C++.

• Complete WDM support for KernelDriver, supporting the standard Windows Driver Model on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.

• Code generation for user drivers now generates documentation for both header and body of the functions.

Enhancements:

• Merged wdpnp.sys & windrvr.sys, resulting in a single driver file (windrvr.sys) for easier handling and distribution.

• Merged evaluation and registered distributions, saving additional installation once the software is purchased.

• Added dual processor and SMP support on Linux.

• Added scatter/gather DMA support on Linux 2.4.

• Added status information on USB operations.

• Added API for multiple interfaces USB devices.

• Automatic generation and installation of INF files from DriverWizard on Windows operating systems, saving the manual steps required before.

• Added an option to generate code to Borland C++ Builder 6.

• Added functionality to the generated INF files.

Fixes:

• General:
  • Various DriverWizard changes, aimed at increasing usability and user experience.

• Windows:
  • Re-implemented USB scanning process to support all USB2.0 HC and multi-interface devices.
  • Fixed USB file to pipe option, allowing transferring data from file to USB pipe.
  • Fixed usb_scan utility to identify High-Speed devices.

• Linux:
  • Fixed CTRL-Z resulting in phantom interrupt.

• Solaris:
  • On Solaris 2.6, Fixed a bug that caused a crash when trying to open non-existing Kernel PlugIn.

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New features:

• Added support for Windows 2000 service pack 3.

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New features:

• Added enhanced support for PLX Technology's new product line, the PCI 9056 I/O Accelerator chip. The enhanced support includes special set of API which implements PLX 9056 access and control, as well as sample application, which can be used as a skeletal driver.

Enhancements:

• Improved interrupt handling on Windows NT 4.0 running on a computer with APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) chip, by retrieving PCI related data from the OS instead of directly from the hardware.

Fixes:

• General:
  • Fixed a bug in DriverWizard that caused issuance of "The resource is overlapped with another resource" warning messages on wrong circumstances.
  • Fixed a bug that, when using a kernel PlugIn, sometimes caused an interrupt not to be handled by the kernel PlugIn's DPC routine if the interrupt occurred immediately after it was enabled.

• Windows:
  • Fixed a bug that caused BSOD when using the DriverWizard generated INF file on certain PCI devices (a bug since v5.04).
  • Fixed the file KP_95.lib which was missing several functions required for compiling Kernel PlugIn projects under Windows 95 (a bug since version 5.04).

• Unix:
  • Fixed a bug that caused some Unix environment variables to be overridden by the DriverWizard.

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  New features:

• Added USB 2.0 support under Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

• WinDriver Hardware Debugger now sends debug messages to the operating system's kernel debugger.

• Added version information to wdpnp.sys that can be retrieved by reading the file properties.

• WinDriver User's Guide now includes new, improved, function reference.

Enhancements:

• WinDriver for USB - New API: WD_UsbResetDeviceEx(), allows reset of devices that are not in disabled state.

• WinDriver for USB - Added USB_SHORT_TRANSFER option to WD_UsbTransfer(). If set, the function will return successfully if a short packet (less than maximum packet size) was transferred, regardless as to whether the data buffer was filled.

• WinDriver for USB - Added USB_FULL_TRANSFER option to WD_USBTransfer(). If set, the function will return successfully if all the requested data was transferred.

• Minimized quantity of warning messages - when compiling code generated by DriverWizard under warning level 4.

• The descriptions and remarks embedded in the code generated by the DriverWizard were improved.

Fixes:

• PCI - General:
  • Access to EEPROM of PLX 9030, 9054 chipsets was improved. Now when access to EEPROM of these chipsets fails, WinDriver retries the entire access process.
  • Interrupt handling by DriverWizard was fixed. A bug since version 5.0 caused DriverWizard to handle interrupts without implementing all the parameters assigned by the user; this affected level sensitive interrupt handling and data transfer operation type definition.
  • Execution method of interrupts transfer commands was improved. Now the interrupt transfer commands are executed only if the application handling the interrupts exits abnormally. A bug since version 4.40 caused interrupts transfer commands to be executed each time the interrupt was disabled.
  • Fixed a bug that caused WinDriver to issue application assertion under Windows 2000 checked-build.
  • Fixed WD_MultiTransfer() to support Delphi.
  • The DriverWizard was fixed to disable generation of XXX_AccessRanges(hXXX) functions when the relevant PCI device has no I/O or memory resources at all. This bug caused compilation errors when trying to compile generated code for devices with no I/O or memory resources.

• Windows NT 4.0 - PCI:
  • Fixed the support for interrupt handling on dual CPU platforms. Interrupt line and device resources information is now retrieved from the operating system (instead of directly from the hardware).

• Windows 9x - PCI:
  • Set Auto Masking for non-sharable interrupts only. A bug since v4.42 could have caused WD_IntDisable(), when using sharable interrupts, to disable other interrupts as well.

• Linux - General:
  • The operation of the function WD_DMALock() for contiguous DMA under Linux was fixed. The bug caused the function to reserve one extra page (if the allocation was page aligned). This resulted in kernel panic inside kfree (which was observed when the following sequence was performed: lock, lock, free, free).
  • Modified user makefiles for compilation under RedHat Linux 7.0 and above.

• Windows - General:
  • Fixed a dependency problem between windrvr.sys and wdpnp.sys. A bug since version 5.03 caused windrvr to return error code 37 (STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR) if wdpnp.sys was loaded before windrvr.sys/vxd. Now, the resource management is handled by wdpnp.sys instead of windrvr.sys/vxd.and if windrvr.sys/vxd is loaded after wdpnp.sys, it will initiate the transfer of the card resources instead of wdpnp.sys. Moreover, now wdpnp.sys does not assume that windrvr.sys is loaded and the two files open a communication path between them only to perform short operations, and then close it. This allows eliminating the dependency between the files and results in an improved stability and robustness.
  • Fixed the method wdpnp.sys retrieves the bus number of PCI devices. It now retrieves the bus number by directly inquiring the PCI devices, instead of inquiring the Windows operating system, since the operating system always returns 0.
  • Fixed IDE to invoke combo box behavior on Windows platforms. The bug caused the default IDE to invoke to be "none". Now IDE to invoke is with accordance to the IDE chosen by the user to generate project makefiles for; the default IDE to invoke is MS Visual C++ 6.0.

• USB:
  • The "send to pipe" operation in the DriverWizard was fixed to allow input of long data strings (i.e. more than 1024 chars). The bug caused DriverWizard to issue application error when long data strings were sent.
  • Timeout expiration was fixed to avoid BSOD if the USB device is no longer connected.
  • WinDriver now uses the operating system's DeviceAddress as a USB uniqueId instead of obtaining the Pointer to Device Object (PDO) from the operating system. Now WinDriver obtains the PDO only for the purpose of communicating with the USB device at the WD_GetConfiguration() and WD_DeviceRegister() stages. The reason is that obtaining the PDO is an intrusive operation, which could interfere with the operation of other devices drivers.
  • For Isochronous data transfers, now WinDriver sends the last packet in a separate transaction, instead of the same transaction. The bug caused, in certain circumstances, the operating system USBD to send the last packet twice.

• KernelDriver:
  • DriverWizard was fixed to allow the Debug Monitor GUI to run under Linux.
  • Fixed the DriverWizard so that it will generate code with an IOCTL to perform WD_License().

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  New features:

• WinDriver and KernelDriver support Windows XP (RC1).

• WinDriver supports Windows CE 3.0.

• WinDriver and KernelDriver support Linux kernel 2.4.x.

Enhancements:

• The Debug Monitor (wddebug_gui), previously available in the Windows versions only, is now available under the Linux and Solaris versions as well.

• New API - WD_DebugAdd() - Enables sending debug messages to the debug log which allows printing them.

• Minor: The evaluation version time limitation, requiring reboot to continue working under Linux, Solaris, VxWorks and Windows CE, was extended to 1 hour instead of 30 minutes.

• Minor: The Unique ID of USB devices is now a pointer to a device object (as received from Windows 98/2000/XP (RC1)).

• Minor: New design of Quick Start Info window in DriverWizard.

Fixes:

• General:
  • (Since version 5.00). Level sensitive Interrupt acknowledgment via DriverWizard. Previously, trying to listen to level sensitive interrupts might have caused hangs.
  • PLX9030 library - modified the interrupt acknowledge register (INTSCR). Previously this register was accessed as a 32bit register, instead of a 16bit.

• Windows 2000:
  • Interrupt handling on dual CPU. WinDriver now implements a PnP WDM function to retrieve interrupt values.
  • Removed the pop up message "Unsafe removal of device" that popped up on device removal.

• Linux and Solaris:
  • "Memory leak" in pthreads usage. Previously, opened threads were not closed properly. May have prevented opening new threads.

• Linux:
  • (Since version 5.00). Modified the Kernel PlugIn function, funcIntAtDpc, to be executed in "bottom half" instead of "top half".

• VxWorks:
  • Print messages from threads, created by InterruptThreadEnable(), now appear in the calling shell, instead of the device's terminal.
  • WD_Sleep() with SLEEP_NON_BUSY option did not work for a time shorter than 1 second.

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• Enhancement: The Wizard now checks the validity of the name chosen for the generated INF/KDF file.

• Enhancement: A warning is issued when trying to create additional interrupts/memory/io while overlapping resources with existing ones.

• Enhancement: The descriptions in the PCI vendor ID and device ID list were updated with recent details.

• Enhancement: The USB read/write dialog box now has an option to "add pipe to file" and "save input".

• Enhancement: All read/write dialog boxes have a "close" button.

• DriverWizard:
  • Fix: The license string dialog box no longer yields "Invalid License" when entering license strings that are over 60 bytes in size.
  • Fix: Allow read or write operation according to what was defined for the resource.
  • Fix: Added the missing filter in wddebug messages that checks debug levels and sections.
  • Fix: Compilation fix for Delphi generated code for xxx_RegisterWinDriver().
  • Fix: When saving a project, the wizard no longer sets the new register attributes back to their default values, after closing the project.
  • Several other small bug fixes.
  • Known bug: When setting an interrupt on a defined register with certain offset, the data from the interrupt gets written into offset 0 in all times and the system hangs.

• WinDriver:
  • Fix: Allow only one application to register a USB device.
  • Fix: Closing USB applications that failed with transfers no longer cause a blue screen that says "PROCESS_HAS_LOCKED_PAGES".

• Documentation:
  • Fix: Minor errors in various places.
  • Fix: Added the documentation about the function WD_UsbResetDevice() which was missing from the version 5.00 manual.

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• New feature: Added a new remote pci_dump (rpci_dump) sample.

• Enhancement: Web versions are full featured, but include less documentation formats. The KernelDriver web version also does not include the source code for the provided classes and the compiled debug library.

• Enhancement: Several minor DriverWizard enhancements.

• Documentation:
  • New feature: Enabled .hlp files in WinDriver and KernelDriver.
  • New feature: Added remote driver development procedure to the manuals.
  • Enhancement: Improved the section of Scatter Gather DMA for buffers larger than 1MB in manual.

• DriverWizard:
  • Fix: Several minor DriverWizard bug fixes.
  • Fix: The PCI INF file generated by DriverWizard now copies wdpnp.sys to the correct location.

• WinDriver:
  • Fix: In WinDriver for USB code generation for registered users is fixed to call the WinDriver registration before attempting to scan for USB devices. Previously, the code failed at Usb_scan.
  • Fix: In WinDriver for USB when writing to a USB pipe eliminated DriverWizard writing of ASCII data instead of HEX data.
  • Fix: On Windows Net.lib now includes all functions that are needed for the Remote Access feature.
  • Fix: On Solaris (SPARC) corrected byte ordering when reading from a PCI card's memory space.
  • Fix: The compilation for Delphi generated code for USB is fixed, after the generated code did not compile due to declaration of fRead as BOOLEAN instead of DWORD.

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• New feature: Added a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to WinDriver for Linux and WinDriver for Solaris.

• New feature: A Remote Access feature was incorporated into DriverWizard. Remote Target is currently supported on Windows NT/2000, Linux and Solaris. Remote Host supported on NT/2000/9x/ME/CE, VxWorks, Solaris and Linux.

• New feature: The evaluation timeout per session on Linux/Solaris/VxWorks/WinCE was expanded to 30 minutes.

• New feature: The electronic documentation (PDF) now has thumbnails, bookmarks, and cross-reference hyperlinks in the references sections. HLP (WinHelp) files have cross reference hyperlinks.

• DriverWizard:
  • Fix: Several fixes in files saving process and in reading from the registry.
  • Fix: The INF data generated by DriverWizard under Windows 2000 now complies with MS recommendations for Windows 2000.
  • Enhancement: Wizard for Windows allows choosing between WinDriver and KernelDriver help files when invoked.
  • Fix: In DriverBuilder (for VxWorks) fixed resource allocation for MPC860/MBX860 and PPC750/MCP750.
  • Fix: In Solaris (SPARC & x86) fixed crash on WD_CardRegister().

• KernelDriver:
  • Fix: KernelDriver USB generates C and C++ SYS files for Windows 2000.

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