The paper describes how Microsoft Windows drivers support Direct Memory Access (DMA) devices, using the Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) kernel-mode driver framework. Because understanding Windows DMA architecture is the key to properly implementing DMA drivers on Windows, this paper also describes the Windows DMA architecture and the Windows DMA abstraction.
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