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Data access implementation of device driver interface
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In this article, the authors propose a device driver interface (DDI, 118) for achieving portability of device drivers for operating with full source level compatibility across multiple instruction set architectures and platforms.Abstract:
A device driver interface (DDI, 118) for achieving portability of device drivers (110) for operating with full source level compatibility across multiple instruction set architectures and platforms. The device driver interface (DDI, 118) makes transparent to the driver (110) the actual data access mechanisms of the host computers (108, 130) on which the driver (110) is compiled.read more
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