The appendixes provide the following background material:
Appendix A, Hardware Overview discusses multiplatform hardware issues for device drivers.
Appendix B, Summary of Solaris DDI/DKI Services provides tables of kernel functions for device drivers. Deprecated functions are indicated as well.
Appendix C, Making a Device Driver 64-Bit Ready provides guidelines for updating a device driver to run in a 64-bit environment.
Appendix D, Console Frame Buffer Drivers describes how to add the necessary interfaces to a frame buffer driver to enable the driver to interact with the Solaris kernel terminal emulator.