Device Driver - APIs

APIs

• Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) – the graphic display driver architecture for Windows Vista
• Windows Driver Foundation (WDF)
• Windows Driver Model (WDM)
• Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) – a standard network card driver API
• Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) – as of 2009 the standard Linux sound-driver interface
• Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) – a public-domain interface to raster-image scanner-hardware
• I/O Kit – an open-source framework from Apple for developing Mac OS X device drivers
• Installable File System (IFS) – a filesystem API for IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows NT
• Open Data-Link Interface (ODI) – a network card API similar to NDIS
• Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) – a cross-platform driver interface project
• Dynax Driver Framework (dxd) – C++ open source cross-platform driver framework for KMDF and IOKit