Related Books and Papers

For detailed reference information about the device driver interfaces, see the section 9 man pages. Section 9E, Intro(9E), describes DDI/DKI (Device Driver Interface, Driver-Kernel Interface) driver entry points. Section 9F, Intro(9F), describes DDI/DKI kernel functions. Sections 9P and 9S, Intro(9S), describe DDI/DKI properties and data structures.

For information on hardware and other driver-related issues, see the following books from Sun Microsystems:

• Device Driver Tutorial. Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2008.

• Application Packaging Developer’s Guide. Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2005.

• Open Boot PROM Toolkit User's Guide. Sun Microsystems, Inc., 1996.

• STREAMS Programming Guide. Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2005.

• Multithreaded Programming Guide. Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2008.

• Solaris 64-bit Developer’s Guide. Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2005.

• Solaris Modular Debugger Guide. Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2008.

• Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide. Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2007.

• DTrace User Guide. Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2006.

The following books from other sources might also be useful:

• The SPARC Architecture Manual, Version 9. Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN 0-13-099227-5.

• The SPARC Architecture Manual, Version 8. Prentice Hall, 1994. ISBN 0-13-825001-4.

• Pentium Pro Family Developer's Manual, Volumes 1-3. Intel Corporation, 1996. Volume 1, ISBN 1-55512-259-0; Volume 2, ISBN 1-55512-260-4; Volume 3, ISBN 1-55512-261-2.