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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

C.  Making a Device Driver 64-Bit Ready

D.  Console Frame Buffer Drivers

Index

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read() entry point, synchronous data transfers, Differences Between Synchronous and Asynchronous I/O
readers/writer locks, Readers/Writer Locks
manipulating, Kernel Thread Control and Synchronization Functions
real_length argument, ddi_dma_mem_alloc(), changes to, ddi_dma_mem_alloc() Argument Changes
recovering the device directory, Recovering the Device Directory
reg property, Device Properties
register structure, DMA, Device Register Structure
removable-media, Power Management Dependencies
resource map functions, Resource Map Management Functions
resume a device, Example Implementation of Interrupt Resource Management
retire agent, definition, Response Agents
rmallocmap() function, changes to, rmallocmap() and rmallocmap_wait() Argument Changes
rmallocmap_wait() function, changes to, rmallocmap() and rmallocmap_wait() Argument Changes