Driver support in embedded XP

[Guest]

Hi,

I am considering moving from windows CE to embedded XP. I havent really
looked into embedded in detail yet but the big question for me is driver
support. Can any device with an XP driver also run with Embedded XP? Ie can
any XP driver be installed on an embedded XP device (assuming that I
configure the XP build correctly).

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[Adora Belle Dearheart]

Hi,

I am considering moving from windows CE to embedded XP. I havent really
looked into embedded in detail yet but the big question for me is driver
support. Can any device with an XP driver also run with Embedded XP? Ie can
any XP driver be installed on an embedded XP device (assuming that I
configure the XP build correctly).

D

The short answer is yes.

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

XPe is XP Pro broken down into a lot of components. If the driver runs in XP
Pro it will run in XPe. You have a couple of choices to add drivers to your
image: either create a component for the driver - import the INF file, or
install the driver after the image has been built. This newsgroup has
several discussions on both methods.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Author

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

Woops. my signature didn't come through correctly. It has been awhile since
I have been on the new groups.

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit.