Give two advantages and two disadvantages of placing IO func

Give two advantages and two disadvantages of placing I/O function in a device controller, as opposed to the kernel.

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Answer:

Adventages : -

1 . Operating system is free from worrying about bugs to crash it.

2. Improvement in the performance.

Disadventages : -

1. If bugs found in the system , then these are harder to fix up.

2. Improvement of algorithms require hardware update than just a kernel.