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
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