- Book Information
- Index
- Preface
- Part I Designing Device Drivers for the Solaris Platform
- Chapter 1 Overview of Solaris
Device Drivers
- Device Driver Basics
- Device Driver Entry Points
- Considerations in Device Driver Design
- Chapter 2 Solaris Kernel and Device Tree
- Chapter 3 Multithreading
- Chapter 4 Properties
- Chapter 5 Managing Events and Queueing Tasks
- Chapter 6 Driver Autoconfiguration
- Chapter 7 Device Access: Programmed I/O
- Chapter 8 Interrupt
Handlers
- Interrupt Handler Overview
- Device Interrupts
- DDI Interrupt Functions
- Registering Interrupts
- Interrupt Resource Management
- Interrupt Handler Functionality
- Handling High-Level Interrupts
- Chapter 9 Direct Memory Access (DMA)
- DMA Model
- Types of Device DMA
- Types of Host Platform DMA
- DMA Software Components: Handles, Windows, and Cookies
- DMA Operations
- Managing DMA Resources
- DMA Windows
- Chapter 10 Mapping Device and Kernel Memory
- Chapter 11 Device Context Management
- Chapter 12 Power Management
- Chapter 13 Hardening Solaris
Drivers
- Sun Fault Management Architecture I/O Fault Services
- What Is Predictive Self-Healing?
- Solaris Fault Manager
- Error Handling
- Diagnosing Faults
- Event Registry
- Glossary
- Resources
- Defensive Programming Techniques for Solaris Device Drivers
- Driver Hardening Test Harness
- Sun Fault Management Architecture I/O Fault Services
- Chapter 14 Layered Driver Interface (LDI)
- Chapter 1 Overview of Solaris
Device Drivers
- Part II Designing Specific Kinds of Device Drivers
- Chapter 15 Drivers for Character Devices
- Chapter 16 Drivers for Block Devices
- Chapter 17 SCSI Target Drivers
- Chapter 18 SCSI Host Bus Adapter
Drivers
- Introduction to Host Bus Adapter Drivers
- SCSI Interface
- SCSA HBA Interfaces
- HBA Driver Dependency and Configuration Issues
- Entry Points for SCSA HBA Drivers
- SCSI HBA Driver Specific Issues
- Support for Queuing
- Chapter 19 Drivers for Network
Devices
- GLDv3 Network Device Driver Framework
- GLDv2 Network Device Driver Framework
- Chapter 20 USB Drivers
- Part III Building a Device Driver
- Chapter 21 Compiling, Loading, Packaging,
and Testing Drivers
- Driver Development Summary
- Driver Code Layout
- Preparing for Driver Installation
- Installing, Updating, and Removing Drivers
- Loading and Unloading Drivers
- Driver Packaging
- Criteria for Testing Drivers
- Chapter 22 Debugging, Testing, and Tuning
Device Drivers
- Testing Drivers
- Debugging Tools
- Tuning Drivers
- Chapter 23 Recommended Coding Practices
- Chapter 21 Compiling, Loading, Packaging,
and Testing Drivers
- Part IV Appendixes
- Appendix A Hardware Overview
- Appendix 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
- Appendix C Making a Device Driver 64-Bit Ready
- Introduction to 64-Bit Driver Design
- General Conversion Steps
- Use Fixed-Width Types for Hardware Registers
- Use Fixed-Width Common Access Functions
- Check and Extend Use of Derived Types
- Check Changed Fields in DDI Data Structures
- Check Changed Arguments of DDI Functions
- getrbuf() Argument Changes
- drv_getparm() Argument Changes
- delay() and timeout() Argument Changes
- rmallocmap() and rmallocmap_wait() Argument Changes
- scsi_alloc_consistent_buf() Argument Changes
- uiomove() Argument Changes
- cv_timedwait() and cv_timedwait_sig() Argument Changes
- ddi_device_copy() Argument Changes
- ddi_device_zero() Argument Changes
- ddi_dma_mem_alloc() Argument Changes
- Modify Routines That Handle Data Sharing
- Check Structures with 64-bit Long Data Types on x86-Based Platforms
- Well Known ioctl Interfaces
- Appendix D Console Frame Buffer Drivers
- Solaris Consoles and the Kernel Terminal Emulator
- Console Visual I/O Interfaces
- Implementing the Visual I/O Interfaces in Console Frame Buffer Drivers
- Implementing Polled I/O in Console Frame Buffer Drivers
- Frame Buffer Specific Configuration Module
- The X Window System Frame Buffer Specific DDX Module
- Developing, Testing, and Debugging Console Frame Buffer Drivers