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Design Goals for Kernel-Mode Drivers

Kernel-mode drivers share many of the design goals of the operating system, particularly those of the system I/O manager. Kernel-mode drivers are designed to be:

Portable from one platform to another.
Configurable to various hardware and software platforms.
Always preemptible and always interruptible.
Multiprocessor-safe on multiprocessor platforms.
Object-based.
Packet-driven I/O with reusable IRPs.
Capable of supporting asynchronous I/O.

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Build date: 4/2/2012

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