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ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 28 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
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Initial Evaluation of a User-Level Device Driver Framework
Device drivers are a significant source of system instability. In this paper, we make the case for running device drivers at user-level to improve robustness and resource managemen...
Kevin Elphinstone, Stefan Götz
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Automatic device driver synthesis with termite
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...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Etienne Le S...
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
SSS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Memory Management for Self-stabilizing Operating Systems
This work presents several approaches for designing the memory management component of self stabilizing operating systems. We state the requirements which a memory manager should ...
Shlomi Dolev, Reuven Yagel