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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

Introduction to SR-IOV

Benefits of SR-IOV

Supported Platforms

Glossary

Overview of SR-IOV Device Driver

Physical Function (PF) Driver

Virtual Function (VF) Driver

Device Configuration Parameters

pci.conf File

Setting Device Configuration Parameters

SR-IOV Configuration on Sparc OVM Platform

SR-IOV Configuration on Bare Metal Platforms

Boot Configuration Sequence

SR-IOV Interfaces Summary

Driver Ioctls

Interfaces for SR-IOV Drivers

pci_param_get() Interface

pci_param_get_ioctl() Interface

pci_plist_get() Interface

pci_plist_getvf() Interface

pciv_vf_config() Interface

pci_plist_lookup() Interface

pci_param_free() Interface

pciv_send() Interface

SR-IOV Driver Ioctls

Data Structures

iov_param_ver_info Structure

iov_param_validate Structure

iov_param_desc Structure

IOV_GET_VER_INFO Ioctl

IOV_GET_PARAM_INFO Ioctl

IOV_VALIDATE_PARAM Ioctl

Driver Callbacks

Sample Code for Driver Ioctls

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

Index

Chapter 21

SR-IOV Drivers

This chapter describes the Single Root IO Virtualization (SR-IOV) device drivers and provides information on the following topics:

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