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Driver support routines (driverProgramDevelopment support routine)
Driver support routines are routines that the Windows operating system provides for kernel-mode drivers to use.
Drivers do not use Microsoft Win32 routines; instead, they use the driver support routines that this section describes.
The driver support routines in this section are organized by kernel-mode managers and libraries.
Driver development support routines, provided by the windwos operating system, used for kernel-mode driver development routines. Drivers cannot use Win32 routines. Correspondingly, they use the driver development support routines described in this section.
The driver development support routines described in this section are provided by kernel-mode managers and libraries.
The following kernel-mode managers provide support for drivers:
Kernel-mode managers provides the following routines:
Object Manager routines
Memory Manager routines
Process and thread manager routines
I/O manager routines
Power Manager routines
Configuration Manager routines
Kernel Transaction Manager routines
Security Reference monitor routines
the routines provided by the kernel-mode Library include:
core kernel library support routines
Executive library support routines
Run-Time Library (RTL) routines
safe string Library Routines
safe integer Library Routines
Direct Memory Access (DMA) Library Routines
hardware role action layer (HAL) library Routines
common Log File System (CLFs) routines
Windows Management Instrumentation (Wmi) library support routines
zwxxx routines
auxiliary kernel-mode Library Routines and structures
processor group compatibility library