Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "" video.

  1. At least in theory the new Windows driver model could use IOMMU hardware which is often not available on Intel CPUs because Intel considered that feature only as server technology and only Xeon CPUs supported it historically. IOMMU supports preventing the hardware drivers overwriting memory and registers the driver hasn't requested from the OS beforehand. As such, it should prevent any random crashes because of driver overwriting wrong memory or registers. However, if the driver e.g. hangs the GPU, there's nothing the OS can do that. AMD supports IOMMU with all 64 bit CPUs. Just like ECC memory.
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  2. Great intro!
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