| Document Information Preface Part I Designing Device Drivers for the Solaris Platform 1.  Overview of Solaris Device Drivers 2.  Solaris Kernel and Device Tree 3.  Multithreading 4.  Properties 5.  Managing Events and Queueing Tasks 6.  Driver Autoconfiguration 7.  Device Access: Programmed I/O 8.  Interrupt Handlers 9.  Direct Memory Access (DMA) 10.  Mapping Device and Kernel Memory 11.  Device Context Management 12.  Power Management 13.  Hardening Solaris Drivers 14.  Layered Driver Interface (LDI) Part II Designing Specific Kinds of Device Drivers 15.  Drivers for Character Devices 16.  Drivers for Block Devices 17.  SCSI Target Drivers 18.  SCSI Host Bus Adapter Drivers 19.  Drivers for Network Devices 20.  USB Drivers Part III Building a Device Driver 21.  Compiling, Loading, Packaging, and Testing Drivers 22.  Debugging, Testing, and Tuning Device Drivers 23.  Recommended Coding Practices Part IV Appendixes A.  Hardware Overview B.  Summary of Solaris DDI/DKI Services Module Functions Device Information Tree Node (dev_info_t) Functions Device (dev_t) Functions Property Functions Device Software State Functions Memory Allocation and Deallocation Functions Kernel Thread Control and Synchronization Functions Task Queue Management Functions Interrupt Functions Programmed I/O Functions Direct Memory Access (DMA) Functions User Space Access Functions User Process Event Functions User Process Information Functions User Application Kernel and Device Access Functions Time-Related Functions Power Management Functions Fault Management Functions Kernel Statistics Functions Kernel Logging and Printing Functions Buffered I/O Functions Virtual Memory Functions Device ID Functions SCSI Functions Resource Map Management Functions Utility Functions C.  Making a Device Driver 64-Bit Ready D.  Console Frame Buffer Drivers Index |       	 
             
System Global Stateddi_in_panic()Determine whether the system is in panic state
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