Technical Document #4

• PCI/ISA
• USB
• PCMCIA

PCI/ISA

• Windows Vista, Vista x64, Server 2003, Server 2003 x64, XP, XP x64, 2000
  (x64 support - beginning with version 8.00 of WinDriver).
• Windows Embedded CE v6.0 and Windows CE version 4.x - 5.0 (.NET), on x86, MIPS and ARM architectures, and Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 on ARMV4I architectures.
  (Windows Embedded CE v6.0 is supported beginning with version 9.00 of WinDriver. For Windows CE 4.x, x86 is supported beginning with version 6.00, MIPS is supported beginning with version 6.02, and ARM is supported beginning with version 6.03. Windows CE 5.0 is supported beginning with version 6.22 of WinDriver. Windows Mobile 6.0 is supported beginning with version 9.00, and Windows Mobile 5.0 is supported beginning with version 8.02).
• Linux - On x86 32-bit: kernel version 2.2.x - 2.6.x (kernel 2.6.x is supported beginning with version 6.20; kernel 2.4.x is supported from version 5.03).
  On x86 64-bit (x86_64): kernel version 2.4.x - 2.6.x (kernel 2.6.x is supported from v7.00; kernel 2.4.x is supported from v7.02).
  On PowerPC 32-bit: WinDriver version 9.20 supports Linux 2.4.x - 2.6.x (kernel 2.6.x is supported beginning with version 7.00; kernel 2.4.x is supported from v6.21).
  On PowerPC 64-bit: WinDriver version 9.20 supports Linux 2.6.x (supported from v8.11).
• Solaris - WinDriver version 9.01.
  Supports versions 8, 9, 10 and OpenSolaris, 64-bit and 32-bit kernels on SPARC and 32-bit kernel on x86 platforms. (Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris supported from version 8.00 of WinDriver).
• VxWorks - WinDriver version 5.4.
  [WinDriver for VxWorks is also known as DriverBuilder.]\

Note: Earlier versions of WinDriver PCI/ISA also support Windows 98/Me; Windows NT 4.0; Windows NT Embedded; Windows 95; Linux Itanium and Itanium 2 (IA64); Linux 2.0.x (from kernel 2.0.31); Solaris versions 2.6 and 7.0 (on x86), Solaris 32-bit SPARC; and Windows CE 2.x-3.x.

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USB

• Windows Vista, Vista x64, Server 2003, Server 2003 x64, XP, XP x64, 2000 (x64 support - beginning with version 8.00 of WinDriver).
• Windows Embedded CE v6.0 and Windows CE version 4.x - 5.0 (.NET), on x86, MIPS and ARM architectures, and Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 on ARMV4I architectures.
  (Windows Embedded CE v6.0 is supported beginning with version 9.00 of WinDriver. For Windows CE 4.x, x86 is supported beginning with version 6.00, MIPS is supported beginning with version 6.02, and ARM is supported beginning with version 6.03. Windows CE 5.0 is supported beginning with version 6.22 of WinDriver. Windows Mobile 6.0 is supported beginning with version 9.00, and Windows Mobile 5.0 is supported beginning with version 8.02).
• Linux - On x86 32-bit: kernel version 2.4.x - 2.6.x (supported beginning with version 6.20).
On x86 64-bit (x86_64): kernel version 2.4.x - 2.6.x (kernel 2.6.x is supported from v7.00; kernel 2.4.x is supported from v7.02).

Note: Earlier versions of WinDriver USB also support Windows 98/Me; Windows NT 4.0 and NT Embedded; Linux PowerPC (PPC); and Linux Itanium and Itanium 2 (IA64).

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PCMCIA

• Windows Vista, Vista x64, Server 2003, Server 2003 x64, XP, XP x64, 2000
  (PCMCIA is supported on Windows from version 6.22 of WinDriver; x64 support was added in version 8.00).

For more information relating to when the support for each operating system and the related service packs was introduced, please review Technical Document #50 and the WinDriver Release Notes.

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