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SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2010
ACM
We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...
APCSAC
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
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...
EMSOFT
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
The soundness of device drivers generally cannot be verified in isolation, but has to take into account the reactions of the hardware devices. In critical embedded systems, interf...
WOB
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
There are many bioinformatics tools that deal with input/ output (I/O) issues by using filing systems from the most common operating systems, such as Linux or MS Windows. However, ...
HPCC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
I/O Virtualization provides a convenient way of device sharing among guest domains in a virtualized platform (e.g. Xen). However, with the ever-increasing number and variety of dev...