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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

USB in the Oracle Solaris Environment

USBA 2.0 Framework

USB Client Drivers

Binding Client Drivers

How USB Devices Appear to the System

USB Devices and the Oracle Solaris Device Tree

Compatible Device Names

Devices With Multiple Interfaces

Devices With Interface-Association Descriptors

Checking Device Driver Bindings

Basic Device Access

Before the Client Driver Is Attached

The Descriptor Tree

Registering Drivers to Gain Device Access

Device Communication

USB Endpoints

The Default Pipe

Pipe States

Opening Pipes

Closing Pipes

Data Transfer

Synchronous and Asynchronous Transfers and Callbacks

Requests

Flushing Pipes

Device State Management

Hotplugging USB Devices

Hotplug Callbacks

Hot Insertion

Hot Removal

Hot Reinsertion

Power Management

Device Power Management

System Power Management

Serialization

Utility Functions

Device Configuration Facilities

Getting Interface Numbers

Managing Entire Devices

Multiple-Configuration Devices

Modifying or Getting the Alternate Setting

Other Utility Functions

Retrieving a String Descriptor

Pipe Private Data Facility

Clearing a USB Condition

Getting Device, Interface, or Endpoint Status

Getting the Bus Address of a Device

Sample USB Device 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

Index

Chapter 20

USB Drivers

This chapter describes how to write a client USB device driver using the USBA 2.0 framework for the Oracle Solaris environment. This chapter discusses the following topics: