Solaris device driver development reference

System Overview

The Sun Blade Workstation and Sun Fire Server I/O System Architecture  (pdf)

 

The PCI Bus and Sun Ultra Systems  (pdf)

 
 

Generic Solaris Driver Development Information

Device Driver Tutorial

 

Testing Third-Party PCI Cards

 

Porting Device Drivers for the Solaris Operating System to 64-Bit x86 Architectures

 

Writing Device Drivers Book for the Solaris 10 OS

 

Writing Device Drivers Book for the Solaris 9 OS

 

Writing Device Drivers Book for the Solaris 8 OS

 

Writing Solaris PCI Device Drivers for SPARC Platforms

 

Converting Device Drivers to Support PCI Hotplugging

 

Writing PCMCIA Device Drivers

 

Device Driver Support for Dynamic Reconfiguration and Alternate Pathing

 

Device Configuration Assistant Design Overview  (pdf)

 

Device Configuration Assistant Design Overview

 

USB Driver Development Kit v0.8a

 

USB in the Works: USB Early Access Programs

 
Solaris OS on x86 Platforms -- Device Driver Writer's Orientation (html) (pdf)

 
 

Network Drivers

Solaris OS Networking

 

Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI) Specification

 

Generic LAN Driver (GLD) Documentation

 
 

FCODE Firmware Development Information

Writing FCode 3.x Programs

 

Writing FCode Programs for PCI  (pdf)

 

Openboot 3.x Supplement for PCI  (pdf)

 

Openboot 3.x Command Reference Manual

 

Openboot 3.x Quick Reference

 

FCode Frequently Asked Questions

 

64-Bit OBP Upgrade Instructions

 
 

Debugging and Profiling

Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide

 

Solaris Modular Debugger Guide (for Solaris 10 OS)

 

Modular Debugger for Solaris 8 OS

 

MDB and Debugging on Solaris 8 OS  (pdf)

 

TNF Tracing Tools

 

Collecting TNF I/O Traces  (pdf)

 

Debugging Solaris OS Using Open Boot PROM forthdebug  (pdf)

 
 

Compiling and Packaging

Sun Studio Compiler Collection

 
 

Programming Notes

Allocating Private DMA Buffers

 

Notes on SCSI Hotplug

 

Pcopy: Realmode Byte Copy Operation

 

PAE Mode Notes

 
 

Solaris Express Software Developer Collection

Writing Device Drivers

 

Device Driver Tutorial

 
 

Solaris 10 Online Books

Device Driver Tutorial

 

Writing Device Drivers

 

SPARC Assembly Language Reference Manual

 

Solaris 64-bit Developers' Guide

 

Multithreading Programming Guide

 

Application Packaging Developers' Guide

 

x86 Assembly Language Reference Manual

 

Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide

 
 

Solaris 9 Online Books

Writing Device Drivers

 

Streams Programming Guide

 

SPARC Assembly Language Reference Manual

 

Solaris Modular Debugger Guide

 

Solaris 64-bit Developers' Guide

 

Multithreading Programming Guide

 

Application Packaging Developers' Guide

 
 

Solaris 8 Online Books

Writing Device Drivers

 

Streams Programming Guide

 

SPARC Assembly Language Reference Manual

 

IA-32 Assembly Language Reference Manual

 

Solaris Modular Debugger Guide

 

Solaris 64-bit Developers' Guide

 

Network Interface Guide

 

Multithreading Programming Guide

 
Application Packaging Developers' Guide