2026-07-26 17:29 UTC
@lethalbit@chaos.social Thanks!
For Microsoft to sign your driver, you need an EV cert, which I got from Digicert for $1000 (and $500/yr renewal).
You also need a Microsoft business account which is something like $100 a year. To verify you for the hardware partner program, you also need to officially be a business (they use DUNS number iirc).
Doing PCIe is the more pricey part, $4000 to join PCI-SIG last year with a $5000 renewal this year. This gets you a VID, since you need your own for the driver.
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@aleksorsist@mastodon.social 2026-07-26 17:31
@lethalbit@chaos.social As for the degree of patience needed to develop for windows, I only handled the bureaucracy and logistics. Our core contributor Nate wrote and maintains the driver, and I contracted a friend to do all the driver testing required for the Microsoft submission (which was a whole thing, needs a server and a client PC, bunch of VMs and such - real computer toucher shit)