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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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To: dseg@texar.com, mjacob@feral.com
Subject: Re: Kernel APIs - Solaris
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Matthew Jacob wrote:
> Well, the section 9 man pages are pretty complete. The device driver
> stuff is actually pretty easily available. In fact, this instead of
> performance was supposed to be one of the main design goals for Solaris
> (and I know- I was part of that effort- Gawd, I'm *sorry*.....)
> 
> There *is* a DDK- I can't remember the order number off the top of my
> head, but it has enough information to write SCSI target drivers, streams
> modules, pseudo drivers, etc. It misses several important items that
> have been added recently (64 bit clean drivers with a 32 bit user ABI)
> or power mode and/or the rather important DDI_SUSPEND functions for the 
> E10K. There's always an option of hiring a consultant.

All the Sun docs are on-line at http://docs.sun.com/  They are pretty complete,
even explaining the DDI_SUSPEND command at:

  http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.45.10/DRIVER/@Ab2PageView/37501?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com


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