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Writing Device Drivers Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library |
Part I Designing Device Drivers for the Oracle Solaris Platform
1. Overview of Oracle Solaris Device Drivers
2. Oracle Solaris Kernel and Device Tree
5. Managing Events and Queueing Tasks
7. Device Access: Programmed I/O
10. Mapping Device and Kernel Memory
13. Hardening Oracle Solaris Drivers
14. Layered Driver Interface (LDI)
Part II Designing Specific Kinds of Device Drivers
15. Drivers for Character Devices
18. SCSI Host Bus Adapter Drivers
19. Drivers for Network Devices
Part III Building a Device Driver
22. Compiling, Loading, Packaging, and Testing Drivers
23. Debugging, Testing, and Tuning Device Drivers
24. Recommended Coding Practices
Member Alignment in SPARC Structures
SPARC Multiply and Divide Instructions
PCI Configuration Address Space
PCI Configuration Base Address Registers
PCI Hardware Configuration Files
SBus Hardware Configuration Files
B. Summary of Oracle Solaris DDI/DKI Services
C. Making a Device Driver 64-Bit Ready
Data types have no alignment restrictions. However, extra memory cycles might be required for the x86 processor to properly handle misaligned data transfers.
Note - Drivers should not perform floating-point operations, as these operations are not supported in the kernel.
The x86 processors use little-endian byte ordering. The least significant byte (LSB) of an integer is stored at the lowest address of the integer. The most significant byte is stored at the highest address for data items in this processor. For example, byte 7 is the most significant byte for 64-bit processors.
Both Intel Corporation and AMD publish a number of books on the x86 family of processors. See http://www.intel.com and http://www.amd.com/.
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