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SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
Device drivers account for the majority of an operating system’s code base, and reuse of the existing driver infrastructure is a pragmatic requirement of any new OS project. New...
ECRTS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Low-level support of peripheral devices is one of the most demanding activities in a real-time operating system. In fact, the rapid development of new interface boards causes a tr...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2009
ACM
Faulty device drivers cause significant damage through down time and data loss. The problem can be mitigated by an improved driver development process that guarantees correctness...
OSDI
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2004
ACM
We propose a method to reuse unmodified device drivers and to improve system dependability using virtual machines. We run the unmodified device driver, with its original operating...
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
In a virtualized environment, device drivers are often run inside a virtual machine (VM) rather than in the hypervisor, for reasons of safety and reduction in software engineering...