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HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2007
IEEE
Commodity operating systems achieve good performance by running device drivers in-kernel. Unfortunately, this architecture offers poor fault isolation. This paper introduces micro...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
2008
ACM
Device drivers commonly execute in the kernel to achieve high performance and easy access to kernel services. However, this comes at the price of decreased reliability and increas...
MSS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2000
IEEE
This paper describes a new architecture for device drivers for tape drives attached to UNIX-like systems. The design goals are presented, some current architectures are measured a...
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2006
ACM
Run-time conflicts can affect even the most rigorously tested software systems. A reliance on execution-based testing makes it prohibitively costly to test every possible interac...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2003
ACM
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...