But hey, Pennsylvania doesnât want to be perfect. It just wants to consume pretzels at an alarming frequency while ignoring all the bad stuff Ben Roethlisberger probably did and the plot holes in most of the Rocky movies.
A monolithic driver contains the functionality for both the logic to control the hardware and the interface to the operating system and applications in a single DLL. A monolithic driver accesses its hardware device without using an intermediate PDD layer, and it exposes the functionality of the device to the operating system. This site uses cookies for analytics, personalized content and ads.
When a process makes requests of the kernel, it is called a system call. Kernel designs differ in how they manage these system calls and resources. A monolithic kernel runs all the operating system instructions in the same address space, for speed. A microkernel runs most processes in user space, for modularity.