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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

Device ID Functions

The device ID functions are:

ddi_devid_init()

Allocate a device ID structure

ddi_devid_free()

Free a device ID structure

ddi_devid_register()

Register a device ID

ddi_devid_unregister()

Unregister a device ID

ddi_devid_compare()

Compare two device IDs

ddi_devid_sizeof()

Return the size of a device ID

ddi_devid_valid()

Validate a device ID

ddi_devid_str_encode()

Encode a device ID and minor_name into a null-terminated ASCII string; return a pointer to that string

ddi_devid_str_decode()

Decode the device ID and minor_name from a previously encoded string; allocate and return pointers to the extracted parts

ddi_devid_str_free()

Free all strings returned by the ddi_devid_* functions