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Writing Device Drivers Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library |
Part I Designing Device Drivers for the Oracle Solaris Platform
1. Overview of Oracle Solaris Device Drivers
2. Oracle Solaris Kernel and Device Tree
5. Managing Events and Queueing Tasks
7. Device Access: Programmed I/O
10. Mapping Device and Kernel Memory
13. Hardening Oracle Solaris Drivers
14. Layered Driver Interface (LDI)
Part II Designing Specific Kinds of Device Drivers
15. Drivers for Character Devices
18. SCSI Host Bus Adapter Drivers
19. Drivers for Network Devices
Part III Building a Device Driver
22. Compiling, Loading, Packaging, and Testing Drivers
Preparing for Driver Installation
Compiling and Linking the Driver
Writing a Hardware Configuration File
Installing, Updating, and Removing Drivers
Copying the Driver to a Module Directory
Installing Drivers with add_drv
Stress, Performance, and Interoperability Testing
Installation and Packaging Testing
Testing Specific Types of Drivers
Asynchronous Communication Drivers
23. Debugging, Testing, and Tuning Device Drivers
24. Recommended Coding Practices
B. Summary of Oracle Solaris DDI/DKI Services
C. Making a Device Driver 64-Bit Ready
The normal delivery vehicle for software is to create a package that contains all of the software components. A package provides a controlled mechanism for installation and removal of all the components of a software product. In Oracle Solaris 11, the native packaging system provides built in support for adding and removing drivers through driver actions. See Adding and Updating Oracle Solaris 11 Software Packages for more information.
In prior versions of Oracle Solaris, the SVR4 packaging system was used, which required including postinstall and preremove scripts in the package to run add_drv(1M) and rem_drv(1M) commands. Existing driver packages using these commands may still be installed on Oracle Solaris 11.
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