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pjmlp on May 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: First Rust code in the Windows 11 kernel

Windows still follows a microkernel like architecture with LPC across subsystems, and nowadays kernel runs on its own sandbox, while a select set from drivers are also sanboxed.

Then there are the whole set of userspace drivers, including graphics.

How are those X Windows driver crashes holding on?

atq2119 on May 14, 2023 [–]

The kernel/user space split in graphics drivers is pretty much the same between Linux and Windows, and has been this way for many, many years.

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