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0 pointsmy1238y ago0 comments

Note that Windows Vista onwards has UMDF too (user-mode driver framework). NT6.0 was a very big step.

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UMDF was available for XP too, and printer drivers had been user space for a long long time.

iirc you can have kernel-mode GDI printer drivers, and the printer port drivers are in the kernel as well

my123OP8y ago

I see, was a backport there

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0 pointsmy1238y ago0 comments

Note that Windows Vista onwards has UMDF too (user-mode driver framework). NT6.0 was a very big step.

UMDF was available for XP too, and printer drivers had been user space for a long long time.

iirc you can have kernel-mode GDI printer drivers, and the printer port drivers are in the kernel as well

my123OP8y ago

I see, was a backport there

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