Preface

This Device Driver Tutorial is a hands-on guide that shows you how to develop a simple device driver for the Solaris^TM Operating System (Solaris OS). Device Driver Tutorial also explains how device drivers work in the Solaris OS. This book is a companion to Writing Device Drivers. Writing Device Drivers is a thorough reference document that discusses many types of devices and drivers. Device Driver Tutorial examines complete drivers but does not provide a comprehensive treatment of all driver types. Device Driver Tutorial often points to Writing Device Drivers and other books for further information.

Note - This Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC^® and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC^® , SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon EM64T. The supported systems appear in the Solaris OS Hardware Compatibility Lists at https://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.