1.1 Initialization and Unload

This section summarizes kernel-mode support routines that NT drivers can call from their DriverEntry, Reinitialize, or Unload routines, according to the following general categories:

• Support routines that device drivers can call to get hardware configuration information about their devices and the current platform in Section 1.1.1 

• Support routines that drivers can call to get configuration information from, claim hardware resources in, and set configuration information in the registry in Section 1.1.2 

• Support routines that drivers can call to set up certain standard driver routines in Section 1.1.3 

• Support routines that drivers can call to set up and free the NT objects and resources they might use in Section 1.1.4 

• Support routines that drivers might call to initialize driver-managed internal queues in Section 1.1.5