Designing Specific Kinds of Device Drivers

The second part of the book provides design information that is specific to the type of driver:

• Drivers for Character Devices describes drivers for character-oriented devices.

• Drivers for Block Devices describes drivers for a block-oriented devices.

• SCSI Target Drivers outlines the Sun Common SCSI Architecture (SCSA) and the requirements for SCSI target drivers.

• SCSI Host Bus Adapter Drivers explains how to apply SCSA to SCSI Host Bus Adapter (HBA) drivers.

• Drivers for Network Devices describes the Generic LAN driver (GLD), a illumos network driver that uses STREAMS technology and the Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI).

• USB Drivers describes how to write a client USB device driver using the USBA 2.0 framework.