Can One Make an XPe Device Appear As a Firewire Device?

[Benjamin Madsen]

I realize that this is exposing my VERY limited knowledge of firewire
architecture and WDM driver architecture, but the question came up and I
figure I'd ask anyway...

Is it possible to make an XP Embedded device appear as a Firewire device
to a connected XP Pro (or other OS) machine? If so, how would one go
about doing this? Is there some kind of SDK that would do this? Maybe
even just a How-To?

Thanks,
Ben Madsen
Embedded Systems Engineer
Massie Laboratories, Inc.
<[email protected]>

 

[KM]

Benjamin,

XP Embedded is based on XP Pro binaries. That means almost everything you can do on XP Pro, can be done on XPe.
See this page for the IEEE 1394 XP built-in capabilities:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310433&Product=winxp

With regards to the XPe, just search in database (or TD) for 1394 - you will hit a bunch of component (e.g., 1394 Host you will
probably need).

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Benjamin,

You can do that, but I don't think that except network (supported by default) you can create any other device type from user mode.
You will have to write drivers for this job
Unfortunately this is beyond of scope of this NG and you should try in some of driver programming related NG like:
microsoft.public.development.device.drivers

Anyhow like Konstantin said if you make driver that can work on XP Prof then you can use it on XPe without any modifications.

Regards,
Slobodan
PS:
What device type do you want to emulate?

 

[Benjamin Madsen]

I'm not sure if I want to emulate a certain type of device that exists
on the market right now. We're use xpe on a PC104 stack to control a
couple of imaging devices and a few of our own electronic modules. We
then need the PC104 stack to communicate to a host PC (also running
xpe), but I don't want to use TCP/IP to do it as the host PC will also
be talking to a public network for inter-system communications (Note
that by system I mean pair of Host PC and PC104 device stack).

I realize that it is probably less work to just manage the networking in
a controlled fashion, but I'd like it to be elegant enough that I can
tell my customer to just plug the device into their network and go. If
I use TCP/IP over firewire, I have to make an exception to the
"plug-and-play" statement.

Regardless, the device drivers is the way to do this. Now I just have
to figure out if it's worth doing at all. The other newsgroup is the
place for me to look. Thanks all...

-Ben

Note: In a brief search, I think I found a starting point:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._c96ec262-5546-4489-adce-5c768b7997a0.xml.asp

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Benjamin,

UPnP might be of interest to you based on description you provided:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/evaluate/upnpxp.mspx
Regards,
Slobodan