Secure Digital Host Controller Testing Prerequisites

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This topic describes the tasks that you must complete before you test your audio device by using the Windows Hardware Lab Kit (Windows HLK):

Secure Digital I/O (SDIO) host controllers must comply with Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) 2.3 or later requirements for that interface. For PCI configuration registers and interface information, see the SD Host Controller Specification, Version 1.0, Appendix A, which is available from the SD Association website.

Hardware requirements

The following hardware is required for SDIO host controller testing. You might need additional hardware if the controller includes additional capabilities. See the test description for each test that is listed for the device in Windows HLK Studio to determine whether your hardware requires additional tests.

  • One test computer that meets the Windows HLK prerequisites. See Windows HLK Prerequisites for more information.

  • One test SDIO host controller.

  • Any secure digital memory card that complies with the requirements of the "Designed for Microsoft Windows" Logo Program for Hardware.

    Note

    If the SDIO host controller test device supports High Speed mode, the memory card used must also support High Speed mode.

Note

To certify your product for use on servers, the test computer must support four processors and a minimum of 1 GB of RAM. These system capabilities are required to test the Rebalance, D3 State, and Multiple Processor Group functionality of the device and driver. You do not need a computer that actually has more than 64 processors to test your device. Additionally, the server system(s) being used for device or driver testing must have Server Core installed prior to testing. For more information see Windows Server Installation Options.

If you use a pool of test computers to test devices, at least one computer in the pool must contain four processors and a minimum of 1 GB of RAM. Additionally, that computer must contain the device and the driver that you want to test. As long as the driver is the same on all the computers in the pool, the system creates a schedule to run against all test computers.

For tests that do not include a driver to test, such as hard disk drive tests, the Windows HLK scheduler constrains the tests that validate the device's and driver's Rebalance, D3 State and Multiple Processor Groups functionality to run on the default test computer. You must manually configure this computer to have multiple processor groups. The default computer is the first test computer in the list. Test personnel must make sure that the first test computer in the list meets the minimum hardware requirements.

Note

Except for para-virtualization drivers (as defined by the WHCP Policies and Processes document), you may not use any form of virtualization when you test physical devices and their associated drivers for server certification or signature. All virtualization products do not support the underlying functionality that is required to pass the tests that relate to multiple processor groups, device power management, device PCI functionality, and other tests.

Note

  Multiple Processor Groups Setting You must set the value for the processor group size for Hardware Lab Kit testing of Windows Server 2008 R2 and later device drivers for certification. This is done by running bcdedit in an elevated command prompt window, using the /set option.

The commands for adding the group settings and restarting are as follows:

bcdedit.exe /set groupsize 2
bcdedit.exe /set groupaware on
shutdown.exe -r -t 0 -f

The commands for removing the group settings and rebooting are as follows:

bcdedit.exe /deletevalue groupsize
bcdedit.exe /deletevalue groupaware
shutdown.exe -r -t 0 -f

Note

Code Integrity Setting

The Virtualization Based Security feature (VBS) of Windows Server 2016 must be enabled using Server Manager first.

Once that has occurred, the following Registry key must be created and set:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard
HypervisorEnforcedCodeIntegrity:REG_DWORD
0 or 1 (disabled, enabled)

Software requirements

The following software is required to run the SDIO host controller tests:

  • The drivers for the test device.

Test computer configuration

Only one test computer is required for SDIO host controller testing. To configure the test computer for SDIO host controller testing:

  1. Install the appropriate Windows operating system on the test computer, and then configure the computer for your test network. The test network is the network that contains the Windows HLK Studio and Windows HLK Controller.

  2. Install the SDIO host controller, if the controller is not embedded on the motherboard.

  3. Install the manufacturer-supplied device driver, if it is required, on the test computer.

  4. Verify that the SDIO host controller functions correctly by using the secure digital memory card.

    Note

    It is a best practice to verify full functionality of the SDIO host controller before you begin testing.

  5. Install the Windows HLK client application on the test computer.

  6. Use Windows HLK Studio to create a machine pool, and then move the test computer to that pool.

Make sure that the test computer is in the ready state before you begin your testing. If a test requires parameters to be set before it is run, a dialog box will be displayed for that test. Review the specific test topic for more information.

Some Windows HLK tests require user intervention. When running tests for a submission, it is a best practice to run the automated tests in a block separately from manual tests. This prevents a manual test from interrupting completion of an automated test.