6 pointsby billziss5 hours ago2 comments

mburnickian hour ago
I have the same problem. Maintaining a driver for specific PCI cards for many years, and could even submit new driver version to the Microsoft Hardware dashboard for attestation signing, but was recently locked out.
If I only try to open the "new hardware submission" dashboard page, I get a message "Access restricted".
After some discussion with Microsoft's AI agents, I could eventually open a support ticket, but even though the ticket mentions an "expected reaction of 8" (days, I suppose), there hasn't been a single reaction from Microsoft support for more than 3 weeks now.
daviddever23box3 hours ago
Do you submit drivers for WHQL certification?
What type of hardware is it?
- billziss3 hours ago
  My specific driver is an open source file system driver (WinFsp). This is a software only driver that requires attestation signing. There was a period a few years ago when Microsoft required WHQL testing for Windows Server (which I did), but they seem to have dropped this requirement.
  The linked OSR thread has a lot of other driver developers including a lot of them maintaining drivers for hardware devices.
  With Microsoft removing our access to the hardware section of the partner center, we are not able to submit drivers for either attestation or WHQL testing.