CN1577252A - Method and equipment for automatic assembling equipment and driving program - Google Patents
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The present invention relates to one kind of new type computer apparatus with embedded self drive program, one kind of computer capable of automatically installing equipment drive program and its realizing method. In computer equipment, memory with embedded self drive program is embedded, the mark information of the computer equipment is altered, and one software is applied in detecting computer equipment, copying required drive program, controlling drive program installation and finally deleting the drive program copied to the buffering area to complete the automatic drive program installing process. The present invention makes computer more intelligent, raises the efficiency of computer maintenance, lowers the maintenance cost, makes computer equipment exchange easily in different host computer, and is suitable for various kinds of computers.
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Affiliated technical field:
The invention belongs to field of computer technology, it relates to the novel computer equipment of embedded self driver, the computing machine of automatic installation of device driver and its implementation.
Background technology:
External equipment all needs driver in the existing computing machine.Driver is the bridge of the hardware of external equipment in computer operating system and user application control and the access computer.The standard device that prior function is unified, its driver is carried by operating system, such as the keyboard of standard, mouse, hard disk, floppy drive etc.The required driver of the computer equipment of most existing be can't help operating system and is carried, but is provided by the producer of this equipment of production, is independent of outside this equipment, is recorded on the media such as CD, floppy disk.Operating system is thought the non-standard equipment of installing for the first time, the user is when installing new equipment, need media such as manual CD that will record driver or floppy disk to be put in the corresponding driving device, and the operational computations machine indicates the position at required driver place, finished by other softwares such as operating systems required driver is installed.
The mode defectiveness of existing install driver.Mainly show:
(1), the people of installation computer equipment need have certain computer literacy.
(2), suppose to use a period of time after, caused operating system to reinstall because of computer virus or computer hardware (as hard disk) lose efficacy, will cause reinstalling the driver of all devices, cumbersome.Lost efficacy or lost if put down in writing the medium of the driver of certain equipment, then reinstall the driver of this equipment will be very difficult even may and cause this equipment and can't use.
(3), under an equipment is imperial from a computer A A, install on another computing machine BB, if do not adorned this equipment on this computing machine BB, and this equipment is not the standard device of operating system approval, and the user must find out the medium of this device driver of record so, and manual the installation.Also cumbersome.
(4) different or multiple different computer equipment arranged if unit has many computing machines and model, when certain computer equipment must be reinstalled driver, the medium of finding out the required driver of record from the archives material of numerous computer equipments also was time-consuming thing so.(5) install and do not have medium such as CD-ROM drive floppy drive to read the computing machine of driver in Industry Control, military domain or in order to stop random software, the method for existing install driver brings challenges for the maintenance of these computing machines.
Chinese patent application number 01110390.6 " a kind of peripheral device of internal driving program ", this patent and the present invention have near part.But the disclosed technical scheme of this patented claim is not suitable for doing the usefulness of automatic install driver.Reason is: (1) this patented claim right requires the installation steps of 1 described installation method, and " comprise the following step at least: computing machine sends an order to this peripheral device; Peripheral device returns this computer system of a signalisation; Changing this computer system is receiving mode; Download a driver to this computer system; And this driver is installed in this computer system." claim 3 of this patented claim points out that this peripheral device is a USB device.Not having computing machine transmission one according to the usb communication agreement orders peripheral hardware, peripheral hardware to return a signal to computing machine, computing machine just knows that peripheral hardware has driver, because at first computing machine whenever want to send out an order to peripheral hardware all will be between main frame and peripheral hardware repeatedly transmitting-receiving and non-once, instruction of secondly existing usb communication agreement does not have the described instruction of this patent." changing this computer system is receiving mode " do not meet the communication protocol of USB yet, because computing machine is as the main frame of USB, the relation of it and peripheral hardware is that computing machine is a main control end, computing machine can read the data of peripheral hardware but can not enter " receiving mode ", and the usb communication agreement stipulates that the maximum amount of data of each packet is 64 bytes, because driver is far longer than 256 bytes, therefore to be sent to computing machine from peripheral hardware be that both sides' communication is finished under the repeatedly read command of main frame to a driver.(2) storer of the claim 4 of this patented claim qualification storage driver is ROM (read-only memory) (ROM), can not be upgraded rewriting thereby limit this driver.(3) this patented claim right require 5 limit the driver that exists in the peripheral hardware be " by a microprocessor by a decoding circuit with this driver taking-up, and pass to this computer system ".Because driver is the data of bulk, and the transfer rate of USB is more than the 1Mb/s, therefore USB device transmission chunk data is to adopt the mode of direct memory access (DMA) (DMA) directly to be finished by the USB interface chip to main frame usually, certainly will be very slow if adopt the scheme of this patented claim to pass to host computer again by the microprocessor taking-up earlier with transmitting, lose the characteristics of USB high-speed transfer, make the user be difficult to accept and lose the enforcement meaning.The technical scheme of this patented claim is not compatible mutually with existing usb communication agreement and implementation in a word, because the existing USB device whole world has several hundred million, feasible technical scheme should be compatible mutually with existing communications protocol; From the technical scheme of this patented claim, fail to see the method that automatic install driver is arranged in addition.
Chinese patent application number: 99108363.6 " being used in the automatic installation method of the driver of PC " are inequality fully with technical scheme of the present invention.This patented claim is that various drivers are stored in the CD, and has the process that an install programs automatically is finished automatic installation in CD.
Chinese patent application number: 02127078.3 " automatic software drive program installation " is inequality with technical scheme of the present invention.This patented claim is that driver is placed on the server in the Internet.
Summary of the invention:
In order to solve the inconvenience of existing computing machine mounting equipment driving program, make and calculate function without the various device driver is installed under the manual intervention automatically, and when computer equipment mobile or computer operating system between different computing machines need be rebuild, all the driver of each equipment correspondence can be installed automatically.The present invention proposes a kind of new method.
It is characterized in that: at any computer equipment (1.), at this computer equipment (1.) internal preset nonvolatile memory (3.), the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (2.) is stored in the nonvolatile memory (3.) in this computer equipment (1.); This computer equipment (1.) has the characteristic information that carries driver and is used as sign or the part of configuration information (5.) and is stored in the storage unit (4.) in this computer equipment (1.); Specific software (7.) is housed in computing machine (6.), and this specific software (7.) is used to control automatic install driver; This computing machine (6.) comprises following steps at least in the process that the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (2.) is installed automatically: when this computer equipment (1.) be inserted to operating system in this computing machine (6.) back or this computing machine (6.) when rebuilding or this computing machine (6.) when starting at every turn or other need reinstall under the situation of device driver the execution that is called of this specific software (7.); This specific software (7.) at first detects new equipment; In case when this specific software (7.) detected this computer equipment (1.) for new equipment, this specific software (7.) just read this computer equipment sign or configuration information (5.) 1.; This specific software (7.) checks whether the driver of this computer equipment (1.) is installed, then no longer carries out installation action as installing, then this computer equipment (1.) is carried out initial configuration, then detects other new equipment again; As installing, then search in this computing machine (6.) whether have this computer equipment (1.) corresponding driving program again, install if any then finding out; If can not find the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) in this computing machine (6.), this specific software (7.) is just judged in this computer equipment (1.) whether driver with self according to the sign of this computer equipment (1.) or configuration information (5.); If this specific software (7.) judge this computer equipment (1.) do not have in self driver, just report to the operator, and finish the installation of this computer equipment (1.) corresponding driving program in existing artificial dried mode of giving in existing mode; If this specific software (7.) is judged in this computer equipment (1.) driver with self, this specific software (7.) just reads the partial information of the driver (2.) in the storer (3.) in this computer equipment (1.) by the agreement of making an appointment (10.), according to the type of the computer operating system of working, whether the information of the driver (B1) of corresponding this computer equipment (1.) is arranged in this specific software (7.) slave driver (2.); If, do not do further processing by the operator just to operator's report, if any, this specific software (7.) further obtains copying to the information such as size of the driver (B1) in this computing machine (6.); This specific software (7.) is found out in this computing machine (6.) and can be held the buffer zone (8.) of driver (B1) down, and this software (7.) control is copied in the buffer zone (8.) driver (B1) in the computer equipment (1.); If driver (B1) is an encapsulated data type, then transfer corresponding decoder software to handle this driver (B1), if driver (B1) is a self-extracting executable file type, this specific software (7.) just makes driver (B1) be performed; This specific software (7.) control is installed in this computing machine (6.) driver (B1) of this computer equipment (1.) in the extra buffer (8.) or this intact driver of decompress(ion); After installing, the driver (B1) in this specific software (7.) deletion extra buffer (8.).
A kind of computer equipment of supporting automatic install driver function is characterized in that: said computer equipment (1.) includes nonvolatile memory (3.) and memory cell (4.) at least; There is or prepares to be exclusively used in the driver (2.) of this computer equipment of storage (1.) in this nonvolatile memory (3.); The sign or the configuration information (5.) that have this computer equipment (1.) in this memory cell (4.), contain in this sign or the configuration information (5.), or can make by the software control in the main frame its contain this computer equipment of expression (1.) be in the characteristic information of the equipment of self driver type; Be stored in the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (2.) in the nonvolatile memory (3.) in this computer equipment (1.) and can be and comprise the required set of several different operating systems driver that should computer equipment (1.); After this computer equipment (1.) is inserted to computing machine (6.), sign or the configuration information (5.) of memory cell in 4. that is stored in the computer equipment (1.) can be read by the software in this computing machine (6.), whether the specific software (7.) of the control autoinstall procedure in this computing machine (6.) according to having the characteristic information that carries driver in this sign of this computer equipment (1.) that is read or the configuration information (5.), judges in whether this computer equipment (1.) and be with self driver; This specific software (7.) in this computing machine (6.) realizes installing automatically the purpose of the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) by reading the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) in the nonvolatile memory (3.) in this computer equipment (1.); The pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (2.) in the nonvolatile memory (3.) in this computer equipment (1.), and be stored in the memory cell (4.) in the computer equipment (1.) contain this computer equipment of expression (1.) be in the sign or the configuration information (5.) of the characteristic information of the equipment of self driver type, connected the agreement of interface of this computing machine (6.) or standard compatibility mutually by the mode that software read in this computing machine (6.) and this computer equipment (1.).
A kind of computing machine of energy automatic installation of device driver is characterized in that: have the specific software (7.) of control automatic installation of device driver in the storing apparatus of this computing machine (6.); This specific software (7.) can be controlled the pairing driver of computer equipment (1.) of embedded self driver is installed in this computing machine (6.) automatically; This computing machine (6.) comprises following steps at least in the process that the pairing driver of said this computer equipment (1.) (2.) automatically is installed: when this computer equipment (1.) be inserted to operating system in this computing machine (6.) back or this computing machine (6.) when rebuilding or this computing machine (6.) when starting at every turn or other need reinstall under the situation of device driver the execution that is called of this specific software (7.); This specific software (7.) at first detects new equipment; In case when this specific software (7.) detected this computer equipment (1.) for new equipment, this specific software (7.) just read the sign or the configuration information (5.) of this computer equipment (1.); This specific software (7.) checks whether the driver of this computer equipment (1.) is installed, then no longer carries out installation action as installing, then this computer equipment (1.) is carried out initial configuration, then detects other new equipment again; As installing, then search in this computing machine (6.) whether have this computer equipment (1.) corresponding driving program again, install if any then finding out; If can not find the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) in this computing machine (6.), this specific software (7.) is just judged in this computer equipment (1.) whether driver with self according to the sign of this computer equipment (1.) or configuration information (5.); If this specific software (7.) judge this computer equipment (1.) do not have in self driver, just report to the operator, and finish the installation of this computer equipment (1.) corresponding driving program in existing artificial dried mode of giving in existing mode; If this specific software (7.) is judged in this computer equipment (1.) driver with self, this specific software (7.) just reads the partial information of the driver (2.) in the storer (3.) in this computer equipment (1.) by the agreement of making an appointment (10.), according to the type of this operation system of computer of working, whether the driver (B1) of corresponding this computer equipment (1.) is arranged in this specific software (7.) slave driver (2.); If, do not do further processing by the operator just to operator's report, if any, this specific software (7.) further obtains copying to the information such as size of the driver (B1) in this computing machine (6.); This specific software (7.) is found out in this computing machine (6.) and can be held the buffer zone (8.) of driver (B1) down, and this specific software (7.) control is copied in the buffer zone (3.) driver (B1) in this computer equipment (1.); If driver (B1) is an encapsulated data type, then transfer corresponding decoder software to handle this driver (B1), if driver (B1) is a self-extracting executable file type, this specific software (7.) just makes driver (B1) be performed; This specific software (7.) control is installed in this computing machine (6.) driver (B1) of this computer equipment (1.) in the extra buffer (8.) or this intact driver of decompress(ion); After installing, the driver (B1) in this specific software (7.) deletion extra buffer (8.).
Said this computer equipment (1.) can be the existing or following various standard interfaces with the interface of main frame, can be internal interface or external interface; The major function of said this computer equipment (1.) can be the existing or following various functions.The pairing driver of said this computer equipment (1.) (2.) is meant after this computer equipment (1.) is installed on computing machine (6.), this computing machine (6.) needs to install this driver (2.) could correctly control this computer equipment (1.), makes this computer equipment (1.) operate as normal; Said driver (2.) can be to comprise the required set to driver that should computer equipment (1.) of several different operating systems.
Except the interior specific software (7.) of adorning, can detect the computer equipment that carries driver automatically also finishes outside the function of install driver automatically, said computing machine (6.) can be various computing machines, for example can be various computing machines such as microcomputer, notebook computer, panel computer, industrial control computer, special purpose computer, engineering work station, server, NC, medium-size computer, small-size computer.According to the hardware bus (9.) of said computer equipment (1.) and external interface (such as USB, PCI, serial ports, 1394, parallel port, SCSI, IDE etc.) the difference of classification, separate provision has the said agreement of making an appointment (10.) that the computer equipment (1.) of the external interface hardware bus (9.) of same type will be observed.10. said agreement of making an appointment has comprised this specific software (7.) in the computing machine (6.) when reading and writing driver (2.) in the inner storer (3.) of this computer equipment (1.), the rule of data content transmitted, sequential, cause-effect relationship etc. between this specific software (7.) and this computer equipment (1.); Said agreement of making an appointment (10.) has comprised the data structure of the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (2.) storage in the inner nonvolatile memory (3.) of this computer equipment (1.); Said agreement of making an appointment (10.) has also comprised when embedded self driver, has the equipment with a kind of hardware bus (9.), due form of its sign or configuration information and content; Said agreement of making an appointment (10.) should be compatible mutually with standard agreement or the standard that the interface of this computer equipment (1.) connection main frame is observed.
The inner nonvolatile memory (3.) of said computer equipment (1.) is that computer equipment (1.) is to finish the function that carries driver (2.), and needs storer, electronic component and the circuit connection of newly-increased or expansion or change; When the said computer equipment (1.) that carries driver had the function of upgrading the driver that carries, the used storer of said storer (3.) was rewritable; The information that this computer equipment (1.) has a function of upgrading the driver carry is stored in the storage unit (4.) in this computer equipment (1.), as the sign or the configuration information part 5. of this computer equipment (1.); Sign of this computer equipment (1.) or configuration information (5.) can be stored in the mode of dominance in the storage unit (4.) in this computer equipment (1.), also can be stored in the storage unit (4.) in this computer equipment (1.) with the mode of recessiveness as the part of the inner firmware code of this computer equipment (1.).
Said specific software (7.) can also have such function, when it detects this computer equipment (1.) and has the storer (3.) that can write the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (2.), it can point out out the spendable space size of corresponding memory (3.), information such as rewritable number of times to the operator of computing machine (6.).When this specific software (7.) receives that the operator's of this computing machine (6.) order will be rewritten this storer (3.), whether this specific software (7.) detects the driver that will write of operator's appointment of this computing machine (6.) effective, whether corresponding with this computer equipment (1.), whether there are enough storeies (3.) can supply to write, if do not satisfy condition, this specific software (7.) provides corresponding information to the operator, if satisfy condition then after receiving operating personnel's the order of this computing machine (6.), it is with the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (B1) in this computing machine (6.), or the driver of the pairing renewal of this computer equipment (1.), be written in the storer (3.) in this computer equipment (1.).The various interface bus type of the automatic install driver function of support that is had at said this computing machine (6.), said this specific software (7.) has corresponding part (GN), and each part (GN) is finished the control of equipment of its pairing interface bus type to realize automatic install driver function.
Use the solution of the present invention, the driver of computer equipment is embedded among the computer equipment, computer equipment uses between the various computing machine like this, or computer operating system is rebuild, or for a long time need not, or the maintenance of complicated computer system, or not with the computing machine of the driver that reads media such as CD-ROM drive floppy drive, all can realize the purpose of automatic install driver, to reduce manual intervention, improved the intelligence program of computing machine, improved the efficient of computer maintenance, reduce maintenance cost, and improved the reliability of preserving driver.With the obvious advantage to industrial computer, special purpose computer, military computer.
At with a kind of interface bus (as PCI), the kind of the computer equipment that it can be plugged into is varied, therefore the function that these equipment will be finished also is not quite similar, and it is impossible will designing that several drivers unify to control all the existing and following computer equipments.But since the operation of the storer of store driver be limited, now as can be known, can unify, therefore to adopt a kind of or some kind working rules to the storer of store driver that limit with a kind of interface bus be complete feasible to regulation.Because existing and following various computer equipments all have sign or configuration information, the present invention adopts in the sign of computer equipment or configuration information and adds characteristic information, with in the difference whether with self the equipment of driver, this mode compatibility the more convenient enforcement of existing protocol; Because the price of semiconductor memory significantly reduces now, the size of general device driver is within several megabyte, and therefore computer equipment needs newly-increased cost between several units～dozens of yuan Renminbi.With respect to a lot of equipment or computing machine complete machine, it is to be worth fully that these newly-increased costs are compared with the benefit of being brought.Particularly when computer equipment originally just has the situation of bigger memory space, the automatic function that carries driver of installing of realization support under the condition of cost can not increased.
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Accompanying drawing 1 is a kind of synoptic diagram of a kind of situation of explanation each several part relation of the present invention, so that understand the present invention more easily.
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Embodiment one: at the computer equipment that uses USB interface, a kind of easy realization the solution of the present invention is:
(1), select the suitable serial flash memory (flashmemory) of a slice, and required driver is write wherein according to the size of required driver.
(2), this flash memory is packed in this computer equipment, and make this serial flash memory and USB interface control chip by the suitable mode that it can operate as normal is connected.
(3) support the USB device of many interfaces then revise the configuration information of this USB interface control chip as follows if the software of computing machine is convenient: revise iproduct (product descriptor community string index community) and bNumConfiguations (possible configurable number) in the device descriptor of this USB interface control chip, be embedded driver type and increase a configuration to increase this product of expression; Increase a configuration descriptor, and character string of the iconfiguartion in this configuration descriptor (being used to describe the index of this config string descriptor) sensing, this character string content is that the unified specific character string of stipulating is to represent that this product is embedded driver type; And the parameter of the bNumInterfaces in this configuration descriptor (number of ports that configuration is supported) indicates newly-increased interface.Increase an interface descriptor, iterface in these interface descriptor (index of character string descriptor) parameter is pointed to newly-increased character string descriptor, includes the specific character string of unified regulation to represent that this product is embedded driver type at this character string descriptor; Newly-increased two endpoint descriptors are used to represent that this two-end-point is exclusively used in the usefulness of read-write of the storer of embedded store driver.Revise the configuration information of this USB interface control chip as follows if the software of computing machine is not supported the USB device of many interfaces: the iproduct (product descriptor community string index community) that revises in the device descriptor of this USB interface control chip is embedded driver type to increase this product of expression; Iterface (index of the character string descriptor) parameter of revising in original interface descriptor is pointed to newly-increased character string descriptor, and the specific character string that includes unified regulation at this character string descriptor is with the endpoint number of the two-end-point of the usefulness of the read-write of the storer that is exclusively used in embedded store driver representing to increase newly; Newly-increased these two endpoint descriptors are used to represent that this two-end-point is exclusively used in the usefulness of read-write of the storer of embedded store driver.
(4), the newly-increased firmware program of USB interface control chip is controlled the serial flash memory of this store driver in the mode of existing magnanimity mobile memory (USB flash disk).Also the firmware program with existing USB flash disk is identical for corresponding program curing.
(5), because Windows 2000, the driver of the equal self-carried USB moveable magnetic disc of Windows XP, therefore the computing machine software that is used to control autoinstall procedure can be write the driver of the storer of control store device driver again, the software of this control autoinstall procedure is when having detected initiate USB device and not had the respective drive program, this software checks further whether this USB device has the band moveable magnetic disc, as do not have, do not do automatic installation, if any, read the character string descriptor in the device descriptor of this USB moveable magnetic disc, if the character string that ununified expression of stipulating is the USB device of an embedded driver type is included in the character string descriptor, then do not do automatic installation, if have, then do the process of automatic installation.
Embodiment two: at pci interface equipment, a kind of scheme of easy realization automatic installation of device driver is:
(1), because the pci bus agreement has stipulated to allow the mechanism of band expansion ROM, if this pci interface equipment has added expansion ROM, then strengthen the size of this expansion ROM, make it to increase the driver that deposits this PCI equipment in, if be not with expansion ROM, then add the expansion ROM of a suitable size, and the driver of this PCI equipment is write in this expansion ROM.And will be placed on separately at the driver of every kind of operating system in the image structure of an expansion ROM, and the leader of each image structure will be set, and make it record the information of OS Type and automatic install driver.
(2), revise the Sort Code or the leader type field of the header section in the configuration space of PCI equipment, with as this PCI equipment of expression for carrying driver type and use expansion ROM.
(3), the software of the detection PCI equipment of existing operating system can read the data of the configuration space of PCI equipment.By revising this software, make data in its header section of judging configuration space whether represent this PCI equipment for carrying the driver type, if not, then do not do automatic installation; If, read the PCI expansion ROM base register in the configuration space again, further obtain the address of PCI expansion ROM, then read the leader of each image structure in the expansion ROM, search the driver whether this required PCI equipment of existing operating system is arranged, if do not have, do not do automatic installation, if have, the driver that this is required copies in the buffer zone of system (in RAM of system or hard disk), further finishes the process of automatic installation again.
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1, a kind of method of automatic installation of device driver is characterized in that: at any computer equipment (1.), at this computer equipment (1.) internal preset nonvolatile memory (3.), the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (2.) is stored in the nonvolatile memory (3.) in this computer equipment (1.); This computer equipment (1.) has the characteristic information that carries driver and is used as sign or the part of configuration information (5.) and is stored in the storage unit (4.) in this computer equipment (1.); Specific software (7.) is housed in computing machine (6.), and this specific software (7.) is used to control automatic install driver; When this computer equipment (1.) be inserted to operating system in this computing machine (6.) back or this computing machine (6.) when rebuilding or this computing machine (6.) when starting at every turn or other need reinstall under the situation of device driver the execution that is called of this specific software (7.).
2, a kind of computer equipment of supporting automatic install driver function is characterized in that: said computer equipment (1.) includes nonvolatile memory (3.) and memory cell (4.) at least; There is or prepares to be exclusively used in the driver (2.) of this computer equipment of storage (1.) in this nonvolatile memory (3.); The sign or the configuration information (5.) that have this computer equipment (1.) in this memory cell (4.), contain in this sign or the configuration information (5.), or can make by the software control in the main frame its contain this computer equipment of expression (1.) be in the characteristic information of the equipment of self driver type; Be stored in the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (2.) in the nonvolatile memory (3.) in this computer equipment (1.) and can be and comprise the required set of several different operating systems driver that should computer equipment (1.); After this computer equipment (1.) is inserted to computing machine (6.), the sign or the configuration information (5.) that are stored in the memory cell (4.) in the computer equipment (1.) can be read by the specific software in this computing machine (6.), whether the specific software (7.) of the control autoinstall procedure in this computing machine (6.) according to having the characteristic information that carries driver in this sign of this computer equipment (1.) that is read or the configuration information (5.), judges in whether this computer equipment (1.) and be with self driver; This specific software (7.) in this computing machine (6.) realizes installing automatically the purpose of the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) by reading the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) in the nonvolatile memory (3.) in this computer equipment (1.); The pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (2.) in the nonvolatile memory (3.) in this computer equipment (1.), and be stored in the memory cell (4.) in the computer equipment (1.) contain this computer equipment of expression (1.) be in the sign or the configuration information (5.) of the characteristic information of the equipment of self driver type, connected the agreement of interface of this computing machine (6.) or standard compatibility mutually by the specific mode that software read in this computing machine (6.) and this computer equipment (1.).
3, a kind of computing machine of energy automatic installation of device driver is characterized in that: the specific software (7.) that has the control automatic installation of device driver in the storing apparatus of this computing machine (6.); This specific software (7.) can be controlled the pairing driver of computer equipment (1.) of embedded self driver is installed in this computing machine (6.) automatically.
4, it is characterized in that as claim 1, claim 2, claim 3, said specific software (7.): this computing machine (6.) this specific software (7.) in the process that the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (2.) is installed automatically comprises following steps at least: at first detect new equipment; In case when detecting this computer equipment (1.), just read this computer equipment sign or configuration information (5.) 1. for new equipment; Check whether the driver of this computer equipment (1.) is installed, then no longer carry out installation action, then this computer equipment (1.) is carried out initial configuration, then detect other new equipment again as installing; As installing, then search in this computing machine (6.) whether have this computer equipment (1.) corresponding driving program again, install if any then finding out; If in this computing machine (6.), can not find the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.), just judge in this computer equipment (1.) whether driver with self according to the sign of this computer equipment (1.) or configuration information (5.); If judge this computer equipment (1.) do not have in self driver, just report to the operator, and finish the installation of this computer equipment (1.) corresponding driving program in existing artificial dried mode of giving in existing mode; If judge in this computer equipment (1.) driver with self, just read the partial information of the driver (2.) in the storer (3.) in this computer equipment (1.) by the agreement of making an appointment (10.), according to the type of this operation system of computer of working, whether the information of the driver (B1) of corresponding this computer equipment (1.) is arranged from this driver (2.); If just do not report to the operator, do not do further processing by the operator, if any, further obtain copying to the information such as size of the driver (B1) in this computing machine (6.); Find out in this computing machine (6.) and can hold the buffer zone (8.) of driver (B1) down, control is copied in the buffer zone (8.) driver (B1) in the computer equipment (1.); If driver (B1) is an encapsulated data type, then transfer corresponding decoder software to handle this driver (B1), if driver (B1) is a self-extracting executable file type, driver (B1) is performed; Control is installed in this computing machine (6.) driver (B1) of this computer equipment (1.) in the extra buffer (8.) or this intact driver of decompress(ion); After installing, the driver (B1) in the deletion extra buffer (8.).
5, it is characterized in that as claim 1, claim 2, claim 3, said computer equipment (1.): said this computer equipment (1.) can be the existing or following various standard interfaces with the interface of main frame, can be internal interface or external interface; The major function of said this computer equipment (1.) can be the existing or following various functions; When the said computer equipment (1.) that carries driver has the function of upgrading the driver that carries, the information that this computer equipment (1.) has a function of upgrading the driver carry is stored in the storage unit (4.) in this computer equipment (1.), as the sign or the configuration information part 5. of this computer equipment (1.); When the said computer equipment (1.) that carries driver had the function of upgrading the driver that carries, the used storer of said nonvolatile memory (3.) was rewritable.
6, it is characterized in that as claim 1, claim 2, claim 3, the pairing driver of said computer equipment (1.) (2.): the pairing driver of said this computer equipment (1.) (2.) is meant after this computer equipment (1.) is installed on computing machine (6.), this computing machine (6.) needs to install this driver (2.) could correctly control this computer equipment (1.), makes this computer equipment (1.) operate as normal; Said driver (2.) can be to comprise the required set to driver that should computer equipment (1.) of several different operating systems.
7, it is characterized in that as claim 1, claim 2, claim 3, said computing machine (6.): said computing machine (6.) can be various computing machines, for example can be various computing machines such as microcomputer, notebook computer, panel computer, industrial control computer, special purpose computer, engineering work station, server, NC, medium-size computer, small-size computer.
8, it is characterized in that as claim 1, claim 3, said agreement of making an appointment (10.): according to the hardware bus (9.) of said computer equipment (1.) and external interface (such as USB, PCI, serial ports, 1394, parallel port, SCSI, IDE etc.) the difference of classification, separate provision has agreement or the standard that the computer equipment (1.) of the external interface hardware bus (9.) of same type will be observed; When having comprised this specific software (7.) in the computing machine (6.) and having read and write driver (2.) in the inner storer (3.) of this computer equipment (1.), the rule of data content transmitted, sequential, cause-effect relationship etc. between this specific software (7.) and this computer equipment (1.); The data structure that has comprised the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (2.) storage in the inner nonvolatile memory (3.) of this computer equipment (1.); Also comprised when embedded self driver, had equipment, due form of its sign or configuration information and content with a kind of hardware bus (9.); And with this computer equipment (1.) to connect standard agreement or standard that the interface of main frame observes compatible mutually.
9, sign or the configuration information (5.) as claim 1, claim 2, claim 3, said computer equipment (1.) is characterized in that: can be stored in the mode of dominance in the storage unit (4.) in this computer equipment (1.), also can be stored in the storage unit (4.) in this computer equipment (1.) with the mode of recessiveness as the part of the inner firmware code of this computer equipment (1.).
10, it is characterized in that as claim 1, claim 2, claim 3, said specific software (7.): the function so said specific software (7.) can also have, when it detects this computer equipment (1.) and has the storer (3.) that can write the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (2.), it can point out out the spendable space size of corresponding memory (3.), information such as rewritable number of times to the operator of computing machine (6.).When this specific software (7.) receives that the operator's of this computing machine (6.) order will be rewritten this storer (3.), whether this specific software (7.) detects the driver that will write of operator's appointment of this computing machine (6.) effective, whether corresponding with this computer equipment (1.), whether there are enough storeies (3.) can supply to write, if do not satisfy condition, this specific software (7.) provides corresponding information to the operator, if satisfy condition then after receiving operating personnel's the order of this computing machine (6.), it is with the pairing driver of this computer equipment (1.) (B1) in this computing machine (6.), or the driver of the pairing renewal of this computer equipment (1.), be written in the storer (3.) in this computer equipment (1.).The various interface bus type of the automatic install driver function of support that is had at said this computing machine (6.), said this specific software (7.) has corresponding part (GN), and each part (GN) is finished the control of equipment of its pairing interface bus type to realize automatic install driver function.
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