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EUROSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 29 days ago
Dingo: taming device drivers
Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
SIGADA
1999
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Interfacing low-level C device drivers with Ada 95
The personal computer hardware marketplace has grown rapidly in recent years. Many software projects, as a cost-cutting measure, are buying “off-the-self” items to meet their ...
Steven Doran
HOTDEP
2008
107views Hardware» more  HOTDEP 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Reverse-Engineering Drivers for Safety and Portability
Device drivers today lack two important properties: guaranteed safety and cross-platform portability. We present an approach to incrementally achieving these properties in drivers...
Vitaly Chipounov, George Candea
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
16 years 29 days ago
Documenting and automating collateral evolutions in linux device drivers
The internal libraries of Linux are evolving rapidly, to address new requirements and improve performance. These evolutions, however, entail a massive problem of collateral evolut...
Yoann Padioleau, Julia L. Lawall, René Rydh...