Resource managing method and device for managing drivers

Abstract

A method for managing drivers includes receiving registration information of a plurality of drivers and storing the registration information of the drivers; receiving interconnection information of the drivers and storing the interconnection information of the drivers; receiving at least a request to activate a specific driver of the drivers; searching the registration information for the specific driver; and referencing the interconnection information to determine whether the specific driver can be activated in response to the request.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a resource manager and its implementation method in a computing system, in particular to a resource management method and a resource manager for managing driver programs. Background technique [0002] In general, as known to those skilled in the art, when a specific driver (such as a driver for a video decoder, a driver for a tuner, or other drivers) is required for a handler in a computing system , from a logical point of view (logical view), this handler does not determine which drivers are available in the operating system. For example, the driver can be a video decoder driver, a tuner driver, or are other drivers; and handlers can be applications in the computing system that require the use of any one or more of the available drivers. [0003] As mentioned earlier, because the application program cannot know which drivers are available from a logical point of view, the software program (that is, the application pro...

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[0003] As mentioned earlier, because the application program cannot know which drivers are available from a logical point of view, the software program (that is, the application program) must have a certain degree of understanding of the underlying hardware architecture of the computing system. The specification definition of the hardware components in the system is that the memory is stored in its own hardware components, which will cause the overall system efficiency to be low

Therefore, if it is really implemented according to the above method, the processing program of the current software application program must use trial and error (trial and error) to find out the driver program that can be used (this kind of approach is quite inefficient); The operation of the described driver program and processing program is familiar to those skilled in the art, and in order to simplify the description, no further details are given here.

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