PC Card Legacy PCMCIA Driver Test
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8/27/2008
The PC Card Legacy PCMCIA Driver Test exercises the legacy 16-bit (PCMCIA) functionalities provided by the PC Card bus driver stack. The legacy support is designed to maintain the old PCMCIA interface defined before Windows CE 5.0, allowing old client drivers to work seamlessly with the new PC Card driver stack. Use this test to verify that the CE PC Card driver stack (with legacy PDD) works on the target hardware system that exposes 16-bit or 32-bit PC Card slots (or available PCI slots).
Due to the nature of PC Card driver stack, the PC Card Legacy PCMCIA Driver Test cannot exercise the real interrupt/physical memory/IO interactions. In order to test PC Card driver stack thoroughly, testers are encouraged to run some additional tests, such as:
- Basic network transfer tests using network cards
- Storage tests using CF cards
- Tests that involve repeated manual insertion and removal of cards, both with and without data transfer taking place
- If applicable, tests that involve suspending and resuming the system while cards are in slots, both with and without data transfer taking place
The PC Card Legacy PCMCIA Driver Test modifies the registry settings when launched. This causes a dummy driver to load when a card is inserted, allowing the test to control the card and exercise the application programming interface calls provided by the MDD layer. This test can also run tests against a system with multiple slots available.
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Command Line Parameters for the PC Card Legacy PCMCIA Driver Test |
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