Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF) is a driver framework developed by Microsoft as a tool to aid driver developers create and maintain kernel mode device...
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directly. The User-Mode Driver Framework insulates the kernel from the problems of direct driver access, instead providing a new class of driver with a dedicated...
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system instability. The Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF) model continues to allow development of kernel-mode device drivers but attempts to provide...
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and above. Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF) Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF) User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) Marco...
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drivers: Kernel-Mode Driver Framework, for writing standard kernel-mode device drivers User-Mode Driver Framework v1, for writing user-mode drivers using...
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Architecture of Windows NT (redirect from NT kernel)
kernel, hardware abstraction layer (HAL), drivers, and a range of services (collectively named Executive), which all exist in kernel mode. User mode in...
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The display mode is set by the kernel. In user-space mode-setting (UMS), the display mode is set by a user-space process. Kernel mode-setting is more...
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XNU (redirect from Darwin kernel)
Mountain Lion (10.8) and later only provides a 64-bit kernel. IOKit is the device driver framework, written in a subset of C++ based on Embedded C++. Using...
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HarmonyOS NEXT (redirect from HarmonyOS kernel)
the HarmonyOS microkernel is placed at its core, with a single framework as kernel mode. The operating system shares lineage with the lightweight LiteOS...
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Protection ring (redirect from Kernel mode)
Under DOS, the kernel, drivers and applications typically run on ring 3 (however, this is exclusive to the case where protected-mode drivers or DOS extenders...
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The Linux kernel is a free and open source: 4 Unix-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds...
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and software components. A full kernel controls all hardware resources (e.g. I/O, memory, cryptography) via device drivers, arbitrates conflicts between...
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NetBSD (redirect from NetBSD kernel)
linked against a stripped-down version of the NetBSD kernel that can be executed in user mode. Most drivers are optional, and may be included or not depending...
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Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a free and open-source virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor...
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system. HongMeng kernel loads the driver in user mode, making it difficult to trigger an attack against drivers to an attack against the kernel EL1 layer by...
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Direct Rendering Manager (redirect from Kernel mode setting)
perform operations such as configuring the mode setting of the display. DRM was first developed as the kernel-space component of the X Server Direct Rendering...
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proprietary drivers with a development snapshot of an X server or a development snapshot of the Linux kernel. Features like kernel mode-setting cannot...
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Video4Linux (category Interfaces of the Linux kernel)
design bugs and started appearing in the 2.5.x kernels. Video4Linux2 drivers include a compatibility mode for Video4Linux1 applications, though the support...
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microkernel - Status". Retrieved January 11, 2013. "Linux Kernel FAQ". A full task-isolation mode for the kernel Supports ELF since version 3.2.0 "MinixReleases"...
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Windows NT (redirect from Windows NT Driver Model)
distinction between the kernel and the executive. Routines from each are directly accessible, as for example from kernel-mode device drivers. API sets in the...
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X86-64 (redirect from 64-bit compatibility mode)
pointers are 64 bits wide. Kernel mode device drivers must be 64-bit versions; there is no way to run 32-bit kernel mode executables within the 64-bit...
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Windows legacy audio components (redirect from Kernel streaming)
sharing unless kernel-mode audio driver supports multiple clients. Prior to Windows Vista, Kernel Streaming offered only a single client-to-driver communication...
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user-mode driver model called the User-Mode Driver Framework. In Windows Vista, WDDM display drivers have two components, a kernel mode driver (KMD)...
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Microsoft. It can be used to debug user mode applications, device drivers, and the operating system itself in kernel mode. Like the Visual Studio Debugger,...
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network interface controller polling-mode drivers for offloading TCP packet processing from the operating system kernel to processes running in user space...
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UEFI (redirect from UEFI System Management Mode)
same processor mode as the firmware implementation.: sections 2.3.2 and 2.3.4 The Linux kernel added support for booting 64-bit kernels on 32-bit UEFI...
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Windows 98 (section Windows Driver Model)
WDM streaming class driver (Stream.sys) to address real time multimedia data stream processing requirements and a WDM kernel-mode video transport for...
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Linux framebuffer (category Interfaces of the Linux kernel)
text-mode display, and was later expanded to the IBM PC compatible platform. Free and open-source software portal Direct Rendering Infrastructure Kernel mode...
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Ioctl (section Kernel extensions)
kernel. Kernel code handles sensitive resources and implements the security and reliability barriers between applications; for this reason, user mode...
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QEMU (section Operating modes)
mode code (and optionally some kernel code) directly on the host computer's CPU, and by using processor and peripheral emulation only for kernel-mode...
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