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ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 15 days ago
Understanding modern device drivers
Device drivers are the single largest contributor to operating-system kernel code with over 5 million lines of code in the Linux kernel, and cause significant complexity, bugs an...
Asim Kadav, Michael M. Swift
SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A sledgehammer approach to reuse of legacy device drivers
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...
Joshua LeVasseur, Volkmar Uhlig
VEE
2009
ACM
146views Virtualization» more  VEE 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Achieving 10 Gb/s using safe and transparent network interface virtualization
: © Achieving 10 Gb/s using Safe and Transparent Network Interface Virtualization Kaushik Kumar Ram, Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner HP Laboratories H...
Kaushik Kumar Ram, Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turn...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Fast byte-granularity software fault isolation
Bugs in kernel extensions remain one of the main causes of poor operating system reliability despite proposed techniques that isolate extensions in separate protection domains to ...
Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa, Jean-Philippe Martin,...
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Device Driver Safety Through a Reference Validation Mechanism
Device drivers typically execute in supervisor mode and thus must be fully trusted. This paper describes how to move them out of the trusted computing base, by running them withou...
Dan Williams, Emin Gün Sirer, Fred B. Schneid...