Re:CoreCLR is now open source
by lobster_johnson on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @12:31PM
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It's still running pretty much everything in ring 0 that a traditional monolithic kernel would. All the "complex parts" run in kernel mode.
The new WDDM driver model runs a user-mode driver, but it's still backed by a set of kernel-mode drivers [1], including the "display miniport" driver.
As kernels go, it's pretty monolithic. What makes it more like a microkernel is that many of the internal APIs use a message-passing model rather than direct calls.
The new WDDM driver model runs a user-mode driver, but it's still backed by a set of kernel-mode drivers [1], including the "display miniport" driver.
As kernels go, it's pretty monolithic. What makes it more like a microkernel is that many of the internal APIs use a message-passing model rather than direct calls.
[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff...