Writing Device Drivers

SBus

Typical SBus systems consist of a motherboard (containing the CPU and SBus interface logic), a number of SBus devices on the motherboard itself, and a number of SBus expansion slots. An SBus can also be connected to other types of buses through an appropriate bus bridge.

The SBus is geographically addressed. Each SBus slot exists at a fixed physical address in the system. An SBus card has a different address, depending on which slot it is plugged into. Moving an SBus device to a new slot causes the system to treat this device as a new device.

The SBus uses polling interrupts. When an SBus device interrupts, the system only knows which of several devices might have issued the interrupt. The system interrupt handler must ask the driver for each device whether that device is responsible for the interrupt.

SBus Physical Address Space

The following table shows the physical address space layout of the Sun UltraSPARC 2 computer. A physical address on the UltraSPARC 2 model consists of 41 bits. The 41-bit physical address space is further broken down into multiple 33-bit address spaces identified by PA(40:33).

Table A–1 Device Physical Space in the Ultra 2


PA(40:33)	33-bit Space	Usage
0x0	`0x000000000 - 0x07FFFFFFF`	2 Gbytes main memory
0x80 – 0xDF	`Reserved on Ultra 2`	Reserved on Ultra 2
0xE0	`Processor 0`	Processor 0
0xE1	`Processor 1`	Processor 1
0xE2 – 0xFD	`Reserved on Ultra 2`	Reserved on Ultra 2
0xFE	`0x000000000 - 0x1FFFFFFFF`	UPA Slave (FFB)
0xFF	`0x000000000 - 0x0FFFFFFFF`	System I/O space
	`0x100000000 - 0x10FFFFFFF`	SBus Slot 0
	`0x110000000 - 0x11FFFFFFF`	SBus Slot 1
	`0x120000000 - 0x12FFFFFFF`	SBus Slot 2
	`0x130000000 - 0x13FFFFFFF`	SBus Slot 3
	`0x1D0000000 - 0x1DFFFFFFF`	SBus Slot D
	`0x1E0000000 - 0x1EFFFFFFF`	SBus Slot E
	`0x1F0000000 - 0x1FFFFFFFF`	SBus Slot F

Physical SBus Addresses

The SBus has 32 address bits, as described in the SBus Specification. The following table describes how the Ultra 2 uses the address bits.

Table A–2 Ultra 2 SBus Address Bits


Bits	Description
0 - 27	These bits are the SBus address lines used by an SBus card to address the contents of the card.
28 - 31	Used by the CPU to select one of the SBus slots. These bits generate the SlaveSelect lines.

This addressing scheme yields the Ultra 2 addresses shown in Table A–1. Other implementations might use a different number of address bits.

The Ultra 2 has seven SBus slots, four of which are physical. Slots 0 through 3 are available for SBus cards. Slots 4-12 are reserved. The slots are used as follows:

Slots 0-3 are physical slots that have DMA-master capability.
Slots D, E, and F are not actual physical slots, but refer to the onboard direct memory access (DMA), SCSI, Ethernet, and audio controllers. For convenience, these classes of devices are viewed as being plugged into slots D, E, and F.

Note –
Some SBus slots are slave-only slots. Drivers that require DMA capability should use ddi_slaveonly(9F) to determine whether their device is in a DMA-capable slot. For an example of this function, see attach() Entry Point.

SBus Hardware Configuration Files

Hardware configuration files are normally unnecessary for SBus devices. However, on some occasions, drivers for SBus devices need to use hardware configuration files to augment the information provided by the SBus card. See the driver.conf(4) and sbus(4) man page for further details.