miniport

plural miniports

1. computingA port that uses a lightweight driver that relies on built-in support from the operating system.

   Attempts to access the SCSI port directly are actually blocked by the operating system. However, the same operating system provides you with the ability to control the device via an SCSI miniport.

   2004, Kris Kaspersky, CD Cracking Uncovered: Protection against Unsactioned CD Copying, →ISBN

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   Miniport drivers use a port driver interface instead of the device driver interface, and the port driver simply implements a collection of device driver support routines that interface miniport drivers to Windows.

   2012, Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu, Windows Internals - Part 2, →ISBN, page 132