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Writing Device Drivers |
Part I Designing Device Drivers for the Solaris Platform
1. Overview of Solaris Device Drivers
2. Solaris Kernel and Device Tree
5. Managing Events and Queueing Tasks
7. Device Access: Programmed I/O
10. Mapping Device and Kernel Memory
14. Layered Driver Interface (LDI)
Part II Designing Specific Kinds of Device Drivers
15. Drivers for Character Devices
Block Driver Structure Overview
Block Device Autoconfiguration
open() Entry Point (Block Drivers)
close() Entry Point (Block Drivers)
Synchronous Data Transfers (Block Drivers)
Asynchronous Data Transfers (Block Drivers)
Checking for Invalid buf Requests
Handling the Interrupting Device
dump() and print() Entry Points
dump() Entry Point (Block Drivers)
print() Entry Point (Block Drivers)
18. SCSI Host Bus Adapter Drivers
19. Drivers for Network Devices
Part III Building a Device Driver
21. Compiling, Loading, Packaging, and Testing Drivers
22. Debugging, Testing, and Tuning Device Drivers
23. Recommended Coding Practices
B. Summary of Solaris DDI/DKI Services
C. Making a Device Driver 64-Bit Ready
This chapter describes the structure of block device drivers. The kernel views a block device as a set of randomly accessible logical blocks. The file system uses a list of buf(9S) structures to buffer the data blocks between a block device and the user space. Only block devices can support a file system.
This chapter provides information on the following subjects:
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