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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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