Install 5's QFEs or not?

Are the QFEs necessary? Is installing them preferred? It seems significant changes have
been made. If somebody is supplying me code, should I expect it to work properly with all
QFEs installed, or none installed?


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Paul
Wed Aug 23 13:20:22 CDT 2006

They're bug fixes to the operating system. Do you install the Windows XP
updates? We can't guess whether the application developers testing against
QFE-ed operating systems or not; you'll have to ask them. I usually want as
few known bugs in my devices as I can get!

Paul T.

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> Are the QFEs necessary? Is installing them preferred? It seems
> significant changes have
> been made. If somebody is supplying me code, should I expect it to work
> properly with all
> QFEs installed, or none installed?
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Kevin
Wed Aug 23 14:14:03 CDT 2006

So then it's even more important if somebody is providing me with the BSP for my device,
yes?


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Paul
Wed Aug 23 14:21:54 CDT 2006

If you use a MS-supplied BSP, there will probably also be a small number of
BSP fixes, as well as global fixes, so it's probably a tiny bit
less-important for the case where you get your BSP from some third-party,
but the vast majority of fixes are to the OS, not to specific BSPs.

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> for my device,
> yes?
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Kevin
Wed Aug 23 15:49:44 CDT 2006

Thanks for the information. For the x86, the annoying QFE is March, where they added a
new element to a structure KITL uses - in the middle of the structure, rather than at the
end, where it wouldn't have broken existing code.


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