Formalising device driver interfaces

Authors:
Leonid Ryzhyk;Ihor Kuz;Gernot Heiser
Affiliations:
NICTA and University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;NICTA and University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;NICTA and University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and Open Kernel Labs
Venue:
Proceedings of the 4th workshop on Programming languages and operating systems
Year:
2007

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Abstract

The lack of well-defined protocols for interaction with the operating system is a common source of defects in device drivers. In this paper we investigate the use of a formal language to define these protocols unambiguously. We present a language that allows us to convey all important requirements for driver behaviour in a compact specification and that can be readily understood by software engineers. It is intended to close the communication gap between OS and driver developers and enable more reliable device drivers.