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Writing Device Drivers
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User Application Kernel and Device Access Functions

The user application kernel and device access functions are:

ddi_dev_nregs()

Return the number of register sets a device has

ddi_dev_regsize()

Return the size of a device's register

ddi_devmap_segmap(), devmap_setup()

Set up a user mapping to device memory using the devmap framework

devmap_devmem_setup()

Export device memory to user space

devmap_load()

Validate memory address translations

devmap_unload()

Invalidate memory address translations

devmap_do_ctxmgt()

Perform device context switching on a mapping

devmap_set_ctx_timeout()

Set the timeout value for the context management callback

devmap_default_access()

Default driver memory access function

ddi_umem_alloc()

Allocate page-aligned kernel memory

ddi_umem_free()

Free page-aligned kernel memory

ddi_umem_lock()

Lock memory pages

ddi_umem_unlock()

Unlock memory pages

ddi_umem_iosetup()

Setup I/O requests to application memory

devmap_umem_setup()

Export kernel memory to user space

ddi_model_convert_from()

Determine data model type mismatch

Table B-8 Deprecated User Application Kernel and Device Access Functions

Deprecated Function

Replacement

ddi_mapdev()

devmap_setup()

ddi_mapdev_intercept()

devmap_load()

ddi_mapdev_nointercept()

devmap_unload()

ddi_mapdev_set_device_acc_attr()

devmap()

ddi_segmap()

devmap()

ddi_segmap_setup()

devmap_setup()

hat_getkpfnum()

devmap()

ddi_mmap_get_model()

devmap()

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