I would say so. Drivers uses HAL to perform I/O as well. And apparently you can replace just the HAL to port WinNT to a different platform.
Aur
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Originally Posted by Rhodium
The HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) has a dll in windows called 'hal.dll'. This is even below the kernel level. It's the lowest level file on a windows box isn't it?
Is it even below the 'hardware bus driver'?
... Another low-level thing is 'IRQL levels'.
IRQL is like a hierarchy within ring-0.
Just how low-level can things get?
i.e (When do you hit the absolute basement)?
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