HDK Technical Reference

AHDK

APIC

Atomic locks
    DDI atomic locks
    ODDI atomic locks

Autoconfiguration
    DDI implementation
    SDI implementation
    ODDI implementation

BIOS

Bitfields

Block device drivers
    DDI implementation
    ODDI implementation
    Raw I/O

Buffered I/O buffers, allocating
    DDI functions
    ODDI functions

Bus
    DDI coding
    ODDI coding

Bus-master devices

C++, device drivers

Cache coherent NUMA localization

CAPI

CDMT

Channel number

Character device drivers
    DDI implementation
    ODDI implementation

Clock, system
    PIT-based system clock
    High-precision system clock (SCO OpenServer 5 only)

CLOCK_MAX

Clone device
    DDI 8 implementation
    ODDI and pre-DDI 8 implementation

Compiling kernel drivers
    SVR5 DDI C language compiler notes
    SCO OpenServer 5 ODDI C language compiler notes
    C++ compiler notes

Concurrency

Configuration manager

Context of a driver

Critical code section

Daemons associated with drivers

Data, copying
    Accessing memory about the 4GB boundary (DDI 8)

DDI interface versioning
    Non-conforming functionality
    Identifying interface versions being used

Debugging kernel drivers

Delays and busy-waits
    DDI implementation
    ODDI implementation

Device instance

Device number

Dynamically-loadable kernel modules (DLKM)
    Using loadable modules
    Making modules loadable
    Managing loadable modules

DLPI

DMA
    Allocating DMA memory (DDI)
    Allocating DMA memory (ODDI)
    Considerations for allocating DMA memory
    Programming the system DMA controller (DDI)
    Programming the system DMA controller (ODDI)

DMA up to 64 bits (DDI only)

DQI

DSP (Driver Software Package)
    SVR5 DSP files
    SCO OpenServer 5 DSP files

Dual-ported memory

EISA device configuration
    DDI information
    ODDI information

Endian issues for drivers
    Coding DDI or ODDI driver for endian safety
    UDI and endian issues

Entry-point routines
    DDI 8 entry points
    Named entry points
    STREAMS entry points
    SDI entry points

Error handling
    DDI implementation
    ODDI implementation

Extended SCSI addressing scheme

Failover (Network cards)

Header files
    System header files used in driver code
        DDI header files
        ODDI header files
    Driver-specific header files

Host bus adapter (HBA)
    HBA entry point routines

Hotplug devices
    Architecture of the hotplug subsystem
    DDI 8 changes for hotplug

HPCI (Hot Plug Controller Interface)

I2O
    I2O split drivers model
    The Operating System Services Module OSM
    The Hardware Device Module (HDM)
    System environments

I2O pass-through OSM (ptosm)
    Return Values

idata (instance data)

Interrupts
    ivect (interrupt vector) table
    Interrupt processing

Interrupt handlers, attaching and registering
    Attaching and registering DDI interrupt handlers
    Attaching and registering ODDI interrupt handlers
        Dynamic interrupt registration by BTLDs

Interrupts, edge- and level-triggered

Interrupt sharing
    DDI implementation
    ODDI implementation

I/O schemes

IPLs (Interrupt Priority Levels)
    Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC)
    How IPLs are implemented
    Minimum interrupt priority levels

ISA bus autoconfiguration
    DDI information

ISDN

Kernel threads

Large device support

Large memory support (DDI 8)

Layered device drivers

lbolt
    Earlier DDI and ODDI implementations
    UDI implementation

LLI

Locks, non-DDI

MAC

MAC addresses

Major and minor numbers
    Major numbers
    Minor numbers
    Using DDI major and minor numbers
    Using ODDI major and minor numbers

MicroChannel configuration information

MDI

MDI data
    Ethernet and IEEE 802.3 frames
    IEEE 802.5 token passing ring
    FDDI

MDI ioctls
    Multicast addresses and failover

MDI primitives

Memory access

Memory allocation
    DDI implementation
    ODDI implementation
    Allocating STREAMS memory
    SDI implementation
    Allocating large chunks of memory
    Allocating non-cached memory

Memory-mapped I/O
    Mapping device memory (DDI 7)
    Mapping device memory (DDI 8)
    Mapping device memory (ODDI)
    Supporting large memory mapped regions (DDI)

Messages, STREAMS
    Message types
    Message queuing priority

Metrics
    Metrics for disk devices
    Metrics for network adapter card devices

Modems, adding new
    Defining a new modem
    Testing the modem

Multiplexing, STREAMS

Multiconsole devices

Multiprocessor systems

Multithreaded drivers
    DDI implementation
    ODDI implementation

Non-Maskable interrupts (NMI)
    DDI coding
    ODDI coding

ODI

ODDI driver interface version for SCO OpenServer 5

OSDI SCSI driver interface version for SCO OpenServer 5
    Differences between versions

Packaging and installing SVR5 drivers
    Installing drivers
    Deferred and immediate builds
    Packaging drivers

PC Card interface (PCMCIA)

PCI
    Querying PCI configuration space from DDI drivers
    Querying PCI configuration space from ODDI drivers

PCU (Platform Conformance Utility)

PDI (Portable Driver Interface)

Plug and Play ISA interface

Porting kernel drivers

Printers, adding new (SVR5)

Programmed I/O (PIO)
    Porting DOS inb and outb functionality

Promiscuous mode

PSM (Platform Support Module)

Queues, STREAMS

RAID

Resource manager database

Scatter/gather operations
    DDI implementation
    ODDI implementation

SCSI interface
    SVR5 implementation
    SCO OpenServer 5 implementation

SCSI multiple channels

SDI

SDI event handling

SDI peripheral hot add/remove
    Coding in HBA drivers
    Coding in target drivers
    Administrative interface
    Design limitations

SDI pass-through interface
    Using the pass-through ioctl interface
        Pass-through ioctl interface errors
        SCSI addressing in pass-through ioctl operations
    Using the pass-through library interface

SDI bus timeout/reset recovery

SDI routing

Serial port registration
    Serial card registration
    Format of the stanza file
    Naming conventions
    Example stanza file entries

Sleep locks

Source routing (network drivers)

Spin locks (DDI)
    Attributes of spin locks
        Minimum Interrupt Priority Levels (IPLs)
        Hierarchy values
    Locking paradigms
    Reducing contention on spin locks
    Selecting an IPL scheme for spin locks

Spin locks (ODDI)

STREAMS

STREAMS ioctls
    General ioctl processing
    I_STR ioctl processing
    Transparent ioctl processing
    Transparent ioctl messages
    I_LIST ioctl

Subsystem and Vendor ID (PCI)
    DDI implementation
    ODDI implementation

Switch tables

Synchronization primitives

Synchronization variables
    Comparison of sleep and synchronization variables

System interface

Target drivers (SDI)

Target mode for SDI HBA drivers

Test and certification suites

Timeouts
    DDI implementation
    ODDI implementation
    UDI implementation

Trylocks

TTY devices

UDI (Uniform Driver Interface)

Uniplexor (UNI multiplexor)