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Linux Device Driver Programmer's Guide,Porting to SGI Altix Systems
(document number: 007-4520-007 / published: 2008-09-24)    table of contents  |  additional info  |  download
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New Features in This Guide

This update provides the following:

  • Added information about SGI Altix Architecture Considerations for Linux Device Drivers for SGI ProPack 4 for Linux Service Pack 2 release (or later), which supersedes this manual, and Linux Device Drivers, third edition, by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman, February 2005 (ISBN: 0-596-00590-3) in Chapter 1, “Introduction”,

  • Corrected pgprot_noncached() macro code example in “PCI-X Memory Resource Address” in Chapter 7.

Linux Device Driver Programmer's Guide,Porting to SGI Altix Systems
(document number: 007-4520-007 / published: 2008-09-24)    table of contents  |  additional info  |  download

    Front Matter
    New Features in This Guide
    About This Guide
    Chapter 1. Introduction
    Chapter 2. Architecture
    Chapter 3. PCI-X Device Attachment
    Chapter 4. PCI System Initialization
    Chapter 5. Finding Your PCI Device
    Chapter 6. PCI/PCI-X Configuration Space
    Chapter 7. PCI-X I/O and Memory Resources
    Chapter 8. PCI-X Interrupt Mechanism
    Chapter 9. PCI-X Direct Memory Access (DMA)
    Chapter 10. Device Driver Memory Usage
    Chapter 11. Time Management
    Chapter 12. Building Linux Kernels and Modules
    Appendix A. Memory Operation Ordering on SGI Altix Systems
    Index


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