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
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
Member Alignment in SPARC Structures
SPARC Multiply and Divide Instructions
PCI Configuration Address Space
PCI Configuration Base Address Registers
PCI Hardware Configuration Files
SBus Hardware Configuration Files
B. Summary of Solaris DDI/DKI Services
C. Making a Device Driver 64-Bit Ready
This appendix discusses general issues about hardware that is capable of supporting the Solaris OS. The discussion includes the processor, bus architectures, and memory models that are supported by the Solaris OS. Various device issues and the PROM used in Sun platforms are also covered.
Note - The material in this appendix is for informational purposes only. This information might be of use during driver debugging. However, many of these implementation details are hidden from device drivers by the Solaris DDI/DKI interfaces.
This appendix provides information on the following subjects: