Ice Czar
04-05-2005, 08:23 PM
This paper describes changes to INF requirements that affect device installation on non-x86-based 64-bit systems (Intel Itanium and AMD64). In this paper, "x64" refers to 64-bit architecture used in AMD64 and Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology systems.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/install/64INF_reqs.mspx
To protect users against attempting to install INF-based device driver packages on the wrong system platform and to help manufacturers avoid the associated support costs, INF syntax requirements have changed as follows for Windows Server 2003 SP1:
Driver INF files on Windows Server 2003 SP1 and later versions of Windows must decorate entries in the [Manufacturer] section and [Models] section names with .ntia64 or .ntamd64, as appropriate, to specify operating system versions on non-x86 based systems. This change does not affect INFs for x86-based systems.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/install/64INF_reqs.mspx
To protect users against attempting to install INF-based device driver packages on the wrong system platform and to help manufacturers avoid the associated support costs, INF syntax requirements have changed as follows for Windows Server 2003 SP1:
Driver INF files on Windows Server 2003 SP1 and later versions of Windows must decorate entries in the [Manufacturer] section and [Models] section names with .ntia64 or .ntamd64, as appropriate, to specify operating system versions on non-x86 based systems. This change does not affect INFs for x86-based systems.