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Updated: March 2019

Writing Device Drivers for Oracle^® Solaris 11.3

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Part I Designing Device Drivers for the Oracle Solaris Platform

Chapter 1 Overview of Oracle Solaris Device Drivers

Device Driver Basics

Device Driver Entry Points

Considerations in Device Driver Design

Chapter 2 Oracle Solaris Kernel and Device Tree

What Is the Kernel?

Overview of the Device Tree

Chapter 3 Multithreading in the Oracle Solaris Kernel

Locking Primitives

Thread Synchronization

Choosing a Locking Scheme

Chapter 4 Device Properties in Oracle Solaris

Device Properties

Chapter 5 Managing Events and Queueing Tasks

Managing Events

Chapter 6 Driver Autoconfiguration

Chapter 7 Device Access: Programmed I/O

Device Access Functions

Chapter 8 Interrupt Handlers

Interrupt Handler Overview

Device Interrupts

DDI Interrupt Functions

Registering Interrupts

Interrupt Resource Management

Interrupt Handler Functionality

Handling High-Level Interrupts

Chapter 9 Direct Memory Access (DMA)

Chapter 10 Mapping Device and Kernel Memory

Memory Mapping Overview

Exporting the Mapping

Associating Device Memory With User Mappings

Associating Kernel Memory With User Mappings

Chapter 11 Device Context Management

Introduction to Device Context

Context Management Operation

Chapter 12 Power Management

Chapter 13 Hardening Oracle Solaris Drivers

Oracle Fault Management Architecture I/O Fault Services

Chapter 14 Layered Driver Interface (LDI)

Kernel Interfaces

User Interfaces

Part II Designing Specific Kinds of Device Drivers

Part III Building a Device Driver

Part IV Appendixes for Writing Device Drivers

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Chapter 4

Device Properties in Oracle Solaris

Properties are user-defined, name-value pair structures that are managed using the DDI/DKI interfaces. This chapter provides information on the following subjects:

Device Property Names
Creating and Updating Properties
Looking Up Properties
prop_op Entry Point

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