Resource managing method and device for managing drivers

Abstract

The invention provides a resource managing method for managing drivers. The method includes the following steps: receiving and storing the registration information of a plurality of drivers; receiving and storing the interconnection information of the drivers, wherein the interconnection information comprises drivers mutually exclusive table, drivers linking table, and at least one of them; receiving at least one request to activate and control 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. According to the resource managing mechanism provided by the invention, the drivers can be configured efficiently, the conflict among the drivers can be solved rapidly, and the low efficiency caused by the try and error method in the process of the soft application can be solved.

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Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a resource manager in a computing system and an implementation method, and more particularly to a resource management method and resource manager for managing driver programs. Background technique [0002] Generally speaking, as those skilled in the art know, when the handler in the computing system requires a specific driver (such as a video decoder driver, a tuner driver, or other drivers) From the perspective of logical view, this processing program does not determine which drivers are available in the computing system. For example, the driver can be a video decoder driver, a tuner driver, or It is another driver; and the processing program can be an application in a computing system that requires the use of any one or more available drivers. [0003] As mentioned above, because the application program cannot know which drivers are available from a logical point of view, the software program (ie application program) must h...

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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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