Chapter 1 Summary of Kernel-mode Support Routines
This chapter summarizes the kernel-mode support routines that Microsoft® Windows NT® kernel-mode drivers can call, according to the following general categories:
·Initialization and Unload in Section 1.1
·IRPs in Section 1.2
·Synchronization in Section 1.3
·Memory in Section 1.4
·DMA in Section 1.5
·PIO in Section 1.6
·Driver-managed queues in Section 1.7
·Driver-dedicated system threads and system worker threads in Section 1.8
·Strings in Section 1.9
·Data Conversions in Section 1.10
·Access to and access rights on driver-managed objects in Section 1.11
·Handling errors in Section 1.12
Some routines are listed in more than one section or subsection of this chapter.