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Great description of IRQL by Jake Oshins

Doron Holan’s blog has a guest post by Jake Oshins on IRQL that provids a nice summary on the concept:

http://blogs.msdn.com/doronh/archive/2010/02/02/what-is-irql.aspx

For those who aren’t aware, Jake has done lots of development work on the HAL and ACPI (amongst other things) so he’s the one that you want to talk to when it comes to core Windows concepts such as IRQL, interrupt handling, power management, etc.

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One Response to “Great description of IRQL by Jake Oshins”

  1. Driver Speak: IRQL « Analyze -v says:
    May 12, 2010 at 8:14 am

    [...] request levels are a fundamental Windows concept. We all know what they are (and if not we should)

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