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Part I Designing Device Drivers for the Solaris Platform

1. Overview of Solaris Device Drivers

2. Solaris Kernel and Device Tree

3. Multithreading

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

Numbers and Symbols

V

/var/adm/messages file,

Additional Suggestions for Testing Console Frame Buffer Drivers

VGA text mode

Solaris Consoles and the Kernel Terminal Emulator

x86 Platform Console Communication

vgatext module,

x86 Platform Console Communication

video mode

SPARC Platform Console Communication

Console Visual I/O Interfaces

Video Mode Change Callback Interface

Frame Buffer Specific Configuration Module

virtual addresses, description of,

virtual DMA,

Types of Host Platform DMA

virtual memory

address spaces,

memory management unit (MMU),

virtual memory functions

deprecated,

Virtual Memory Functions

table,

Virtual Memory Functions

visual I/O interfaces,

Console Visual I/O Interfaces

volatile keyword,

Declaring a Variable Volatile

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