Userland PCI drivers

Re:Userland PCI drivers by my123 on Sunday March 25, 2018 @05:41PM (#16674775)

Note that Windows Vista onwards has UMDF too (user-mode driver framework). NT6.0 was a very big step.

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Re:Userland PCI drivers by repiret on Sunday March 25, 2018 @06:32PM (#16675034)

UMDF was available for XP too, and printer drivers had been user space for a long long time.

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Re:Userland PCI drivers by blattimwind on Sunday March 25, 2018 @06:44PM (#16675081)

iirc you can have kernel-mode GDI printer drivers, and the printer port drivers are in the kernel as well

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Re:Userland PCI drivers by my123 on Sunday March 25, 2018 @06:43PM (#16675079)

I see, was a backport there

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