The Windows 2000 Device Driver Book: A Guide for Programmers (2nd Edition)

This chapter presented a cursory look at hardware issues. A driver needs to find the devices it will be controlling and determine the system resources required. Some bus architectures make this easy, some hard. Later chapters describe the services provided by Windows 2000 to make this job easier.

The next chapter provides an overview of the Windows 2000 I/O process.