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A sledgehammer approach to reuse of legacy device drivers

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Joshua LeVasseur,

Volkmar UhligAuthors Info & Claims

EW 11: Proceedings of the 11th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop

Pages 24 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/1133572.1133617

Published: 19 September 2004 Publication History

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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 operating systems should benefit from the existing device driver code base without demanding legacy support from the kernel.Instead of trying to directly integrate existing device drivers we propose a more radical approach. We run the unmodified device driver, with its complete original OS, isolated in a virtual machine. Our flexible approach, requiring only minimal support infrastructure, allows us to run any existing device driver, independently of the OS or driver vendor.

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EW 11: Proceedings of the 11th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop

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DOI:10.1145/1133572

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Dolev SYagel R(2008)Self-stabilizing device driversACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems10.1145/1452001.14520073:4(1-29)Online publication date: 12-Dec-2008
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Dolev SYagel R(2006)Self-stabilizing device driversProceedings of the 8th international conference on Stabilization, safety, and security of distributed systems10.5555/1759076.1759097(276-289)Online publication date: 17-Nov-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1759076.1759097
Herder JBos HGras BHomburg PTanenbaum A(2006)MINIX 3ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review10.1145/1151374.115139140:3(80-89)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1151374.1151391
Dolev SYagel R(2006)Self-stabilizing Device DriversStabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems10.1007/978-3-540-49823-0_19(276-289)Online publication date: 2006
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49823-0_19

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