Overview – Provides information about developing drivers for character-oriented devices, block-oriented devices, network devices, SCSI target and HBA devices, and USB devices for the Oracle Solaris Operating System (Oracle Solaris OS). This guide discusses how to develop multithreaded reentrant device drivers for all architectures that conform to the Oracle Solaris DDI/DKI (Device Driver Interface, Driver-Kernel Interface) and describes a common driver programming approach that enables the writing of drivers without concern for platform-specific issues such as endianness and data ordering. Additional topics include hardening Oracle Solaris drivers; power management; driver autoconfiguration; programmed I/O; Direct Memory Access (DMA); device context management; compilation, installation, and testing drivers; debugging drivers; and porting Oracle Solaris drivers to a 64-bit environment.
Audience – This guide is written for UNIX programmers who are familiar with UNIX device drivers. Overview information is provided, but the guide is not intended to serve as a general tutorial on device drivers.
Required knowledge – Familiarity with C programming and developing device drivers.
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