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Preface

Writing PCMCIA Device Drivers presents a brief overview of PC Card technology and provides information on the Solaris(TM) UNIX(R) implementation of the PC Card Standard. It also describes how to write a PC Card driver for the Solaris environment and presents a complete structured walkthrough of a sample Solaris PC Card driver.

Who Should Use This Book

This document is intended for UNIX device driver writers who are writing PC Card drivers and for PC Card driver writers who need information on the Solaris implementation of the PC Card Standard.

How This Book Is Organized

This document is organized into the following chapters.
Chapter 1, "PC Cards and Drivers," provides a brief overview of PC Card technology and presents introductory information on the Solaris UNIX implementation of the PC Card Standard.
Chapter 2, "PCMCIA System Architecture," provides overview information on the PCMCIA system architecture.
Chapter 3, "Solaris Card Services," discusses the Solaris implementation of the Card Services Standard.
Chapter 4, "Card Information Structure (CIS)," describes the Card Information Structure (CIS).
Chapter 5, "PC Card Driver Autoconfiguration," describes the support a PC Card driver must provide for driver autoconfiguration.
Chapter 6, "PC Card Event Management," discusses event handling in the PCMCIA framework.
Chapter 7, "PC Card Configuration," discusses allocation of system resources to a PC Card.
Chapter 8, "Portable PC Card Drivers," discusses portability issues that a driver writer should be aware of when writing a PC Card driver that is portable across Solaris platforms.
Chapter 9, "PCMCIA Parallel Port Driver," presents the complete code for a PCMCIA parallel port driver and shows how a similar driver could be written.

Related Books

Driver writers can benefit from reading the following book before writing a PC Card driver for the Solaris environment:
  • Writing Device Drivers, SunSoft, 1997.
For detailed information on PCMCIA, see the PCMCIA specification:
  • PCMCIA/JEIDA, PC Card Standard, Februrary 1995.

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What Typographic Changes Mean

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.
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AaBbCc123Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or valueTo delete a file, type rm filename.
AaBbCc123Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasizedRead Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this.