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Bjame Steensgaard

Galen Clyde Hunt

James R Larus

Steven P Levi

David R Tarditi

Manuel A Fähndrich

Orion Hodson

Michael Carbin

Michael F Spear

In some implementations, the operations of a software system may include the execution of untrusted device drivers. The execution of an untrusted device driver may be initiated when an untrusted device driver that is a set of executable instructions is obtained. A computing resource for the execution of the device driver may be further determined from a device-driver manifest of the untrusted device driver. Computing resources may include one or more of a hardware resource, a memory, an input/output port, an interrupt request line, and an inter-process communication channel. Trusted local access objects may be used by the untrusted device driver to access the computing resources.

Configuration of isolated extensions and device drivers

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