Serial Joystick

Hello Group

I'm new in driver development. And must admit that this is realy
complicated for me :). My problem is like that:
I have a joystick that use the serial port. My goal is to write a
"driver" that use this serial port but acts like a joystick which is
selectable in the game controller dialog.
I've found out that I need the sermouse and the vhdmini example to to
that. But could what are the steps that I have to do. Or is there any
example code anywhere? I hope you guys could help me.

thanks

Gary
Tue Jun 20 09:16:40 CDT 2006

And the reason why you are tossing serial.sys? The source for serial.sys can
be found in the DDK, by the way.

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"Cengiz" <cengiz@terzibas.de> wrote in message
news:1150793960.991967.211670@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com...
> Hello Group
>
> I'm new in driver development. And must admit that this is realy
> complicated for me :). My problem is like that:
> I have a joystick that use the serial port. My goal is to write a
> "driver" that use this serial port but acts like a joystick which is
> selectable in the game controller dialog.
> I've found out that I need the sermouse and the vhdmini example to to
> that. But could what are the steps that I have to do. Or is there any
> example code anywhere? I hope you guys could help me.
>
> thanks
>

Doron
Tue Jun 20 20:59:49 CDT 2006

1) is your device serial enumerable? if so, skip step 2
2) load serial.sys as a lower filter
3) create a hid miniport, use vhidmini as a starting point. you will send
read irps to the stack below you to get the data. serial.sys will take care
of the uart for you. to see how to talk to the stack below, look at mouser.
4) in vhidmini, you have to create a fake hid descriptor which describes
your joystick and then report it to hidclass

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"Gary G. Little" <gary.g.little@seagate.com> wrote in message
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> And the reason why you are tossing serial.sys? The source for serial.sys
> can be found in the DDK, by the way.
>
> --
> The personal opinion of
> Gary G. Little
>
> "Cengiz" <cengiz@terzibas.de> wrote in message
> news:1150793960.991967.211670@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com...
>> Hello Group
>>
>> I'm new in driver development. And must admit that this is realy
>> complicated for me :). My problem is like that:
>> I have a joystick that use the serial port. My goal is to write a
>> "driver" that use this serial port but acts like a joystick which is
>> selectable in the game controller dialog.
>> I've found out that I need the sermouse and the vhdmini example to to
>> that. But could what are the steps that I have to do. Or is there any
>> example code anywhere? I hope you guys could help me.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>
>