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Preface

Part I Designing Device Drivers for the Solaris Platform

1.  Overview of Solaris Device Drivers

2.  Solaris Kernel and Device Tree

3.  Multithreading

4.  Properties

5.  Managing Events and Queueing Tasks

6.  Driver Autoconfiguration

7.  Device Access: Programmed I/O

8.  Interrupt Handlers

9.  Direct Memory Access (DMA)

10.  Mapping Device and Kernel Memory

11.  Device Context Management

12.  Power Management

13.  Hardening Solaris Drivers

14.  Layered Driver Interface (LDI)

Part II Designing Specific Kinds of Device Drivers

15.  Drivers for Character Devices

16.  Drivers for Block Devices

17.  SCSI Target Drivers

18.  SCSI Host Bus Adapter Drivers

19.  Drivers for Network Devices

20.  USB Drivers

Part III Building a Device Driver

21.  Compiling, Loading, Packaging, and Testing Drivers

22.  Debugging, Testing, and Tuning Device Drivers

23.  Recommended Coding Practices

Part IV Appendixes

A.  Hardware Overview

B.  Summary of Solaris DDI/DKI Services

Module Functions

Device Information Tree Node (dev_info_t) Functions

Device (dev_t) Functions

Property Functions

Device Software State Functions

Memory Allocation and Deallocation Functions

Kernel Thread Control and Synchronization Functions

Task Queue Management Functions

Interrupt Functions

Programmed I/O Functions

Direct Memory Access (DMA) Functions

User Space Access Functions

User Process Event Functions

User Process Information Functions

User Application Kernel and Device Access Functions

Time-Related Functions

Power Management Functions

Fault Management Functions

Kernel Statistics Functions

Kernel Logging and Printing Functions

Buffered I/O Functions

Virtual Memory Functions

Device ID Functions

SCSI Functions

Resource Map Management Functions

System Global State

Utility Functions

C.  Making a Device Driver 64-Bit Ready

D.  Console Frame Buffer Drivers

Index

Property Functions

The property functions are:

ddi_prop_exists()

Check for the existence of a property

ddi_prop_free()

Free resources consumed by property lookup

ddi_prop_get_int()

Look up integer property

ddi_prop_get_int64()

Look up 64-bit integer property

ddi_prop_lookup_byte_array()

Look up byte array property

ddi_prop_lookup_int_array()

Look up integer array property

ddi_prop_lookup_int64_array()

Look up 64-bit integer array property

ddi_prop_lookup_string()

Look up string property

ddi_prop_lookup_string_array()

Look up string array property

ddi_prop_remove()

Remove a property of a device

ddi_prop_remove_all()

Remove all properties of a device

ddi_prop_undefine()

Hide a property of a device

ddi_prop_update_byte_array()

Create or update byte array property

ddi_prop_update_int()

Create or update integer property

ddi_prop_update_int64()

Create or update 64-bit integer property

ddi_prop_update_int_array()

Create or update integer array property

ddi_prop_update_int64_array()

Create or update 64-bit integer array property

ddi_prop_update_string()

Create or update string property

ddi_prop_update_string_array()

Create or update string array property

Table B-1 Deprecated Property Functions

Deprecated Functions
Replacements
ddi_getlongprop()
see ddi_prop_lookup()
ddi_getlongprop_buf()
ddi_prop_lookup()
ddi_getprop()
ddi_prop_get_int()
ddi_getproplen()
ddi_prop_lookup()
ddi_prop_create()
ddi_prop_lookup()
ddi_prop_modify()
ddi_prop_lookup()
ddi_prop_op()
ddi_prop_lookup()