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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

C.  Making a Device Driver 64-Bit Ready

D.  Console Frame Buffer Drivers

E.  pci.conf File

Description

System Configuration Section

Device Configuration Section

Syntax

References

Index

Syntax

/etc/pci.conf = <system section><device section>
<system section> = "[System_Configuration]" {<framework subsection>}*
<device section> = "[Device_Configuration]" {<device subsection>}*
<framework subsection> = <label> [ {filter>}* ]
[ {<framework action>}+ ]
<device subsection> = <label> [ {<filter>}+* ] <devicenvlist>
<filter> = [ "[[" "id" "=" (vendorid>) "," (<deviceid>) "," (<revisionid>) "," (<subsystem-vendorid>) "," (<subsystemid>)"]]"] 
| ["[[" "classcode" "=" <classcode> (,<mask>) "]]" ] | [ "[[" "path"
"=" ,devpath> "]]"]
<framework action> = [ "num-vf" "=" <val>]
<deice nvlist> = [ {name string> "=" <value string>} +]