Appendix B

Summary of Solaris DDI/DKI Services

This appendix discusses the interfaces provided by the Solaris DDI/DKI. These descriptions should not be considered complete or definitive, nor do they provide a thorough guide to usage. The descriptions are intended to describe what the functions do in general terms. See physio(9F) for more detailed information. The categories are:

• Module Functions

• Device Information Tree Node (dev_info_t) Functions

• Device (dev_t) Functions

• Property Functions

• Device Software State Functions

• Memory Allocation and Deallocation Functions

• Kernel Thread Control and Synchronization Functions

• Task Queue Management Functions

• Interrupt Functions

• Programmed I/O Functions

• Direct Memory Access (DMA) Functions

• User Space Access Functions

• User Process Event Functions

• User Process Information Functions

• User Application Kernel and Device Access Functions

• Time-Related Functions

• Power Management Functions

• Fault Management Functions

• Kernel Statistics Functions

• Kernel Logging and Printing Functions

• Buffered I/O Functions

• Virtual Memory Functions

• Device ID Functions

• SCSI Functions

• Resource Map Management Functions

• System Global State

• Utility Functions

This appendix does not discuss STREAMS interfaces; to learn more about network drivers, see the STREAMS Programming Guide.