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Writing Device Drivers     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

Part I Designing Device Drivers for the Oracle Solaris Platform

1.  Overview of Oracle Solaris Device Drivers

2.  Oracle 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 Oracle 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

21.  SR-IOV Drivers

Part III Building a Device Driver

22.  Compiling, Loading, Packaging, and Testing Drivers

23.  Debugging, Testing, and Tuning Device Drivers

24.  Recommended Coding Practices

Part IV Appendixes

A.  Hardware Overview

B.  Summary of Oracle 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

C.  Making a Device Driver 64-Bit Ready

D.  Console Frame Buffer Drivers

E.  pci.conf File

Index

User Space Access Functions

The user space access functions are:

ddi_copyin()

Copy data to a driver buffer

ddi_copyout()

Copy data from a driver

uiomove()

Copy kernel data using a uio structure

ureadc()

Add character to a uio structure

uwritec()

Remove a character from a uio structure

getminor()

Get minor device number.

ddi_model_convert_from()

Determine a data model type mismatch

IOC_CONVERT_FROM()

Determine whether there is a need to translate M_IOCTL contents

STRUCT_DECL()

Establish the handle to application data in a possibly differing data model

STRUCT_HANDLE()

Establish the handle to application data in a possibly differing data model

STRUCT_INIT()

Establish the handle to application data in a possibly differing data model

STRUCT_SET_HANDLE()

Establish the handle to application data in a possibly differing data model

SIZEOF_PTR()

Return the size of pointer in specified data model

SIZEOF_STRUCT()

Return the size of a structure in the specified data model

STRUCT_SIZE()

Return the size of a structure in the application data model

STRUCT_BUF()

Return a pointer to the native mode instance of the structure

STRUCT_FADDR()

Return a pointer to the specified field of a structure

STRUCT_FGET()

Return the specified field of a structure in the application data model

STRUCT_FGETP()

Return the specified pointer field of a structure in the application data model

STRUCT_FSET()

Set a specified field of a structure in the application data model

STRUCT_FSETP()

Set a specified pointer field of a structure in the application data model

Table B-6 Deprecated User Space Access Functions

Deprecated Function
Replacement
copyin()
ddi_copyin()
copyout()
ddi_copyout()
ddi_getminor()
getminor()