sysbus(4)

NAME

     sysbus, isa, eisa - device tree properties for ISA and  EISA
     bus device drivers

DESCRIPTION

     Solaris for x86 supports the ISA and EISA buses as the  sys-
     tem  bus.  Drivers for devices on these buses use the device
     tree built by the booting system to retrieve  the  necessary
     system  resources  used  by  the  driver.   These  resources
     include device I/O port addresses, any  interrupt  capabili-
     ties
      that the device may have, any DMA channels it may  require,
     and any memory-mapped addresses it may occupy.

     Configuration files for ISA and EISA device drivers are only
     necessary to describe properties used by a particular driver
     that are not part of the standard properties  found  in  the
     device  tree. See driver.conf(4) for further details of con-
     figuration file syntax.

     The ISA and EISA nexus drivers all belong to  class  sysbus.
     All bus drivers of class sysbus recognize the following pro-
     perties:

      interrupts
           An arbitrary-length array where each  element  of  the
           array  represents  a  hardware interrupt (IRQ) that is
           used by the device.  In general, this array  only  has
           one  entry  unless  a particular device uses more than
           one IRQ.

           Solaris defaults all ISA and EISA interrupts to IPL 5.
           This  interrupt  priority may be overridden by placing
           an interrupt-priorities property in a .conf  file  for
           the  driver.  Each  entry in the array of integers for
           the interrupt-priorities property is  matched  one-to-
           one  with  the  elements in the interrupts property to
           specify the IPL value that will be used by the  system
           for  this interrupt in this driver. This is the prior-
           ity that this device's interrupt handler will  receive
           relative to the interrupt handlers of other drivers.
            The priority is an integer from  1 to 16.  Generally,
           disks  are  assigned  a  priority of 5, while mice and
           printers are lower, and serial  communication  devices
           are  higher, typically 7. 10 is reserved by the system
           and must not be used.  Priorities 11 and  greater  are
           high  level  priorities  and  are generally not recom-
           mended (see  ddi_intr_hilevel(9F)).

           The driver can refer to the elements of this array  by
           index  using  ddi_add_intr(9F).   The  index  into the
           array  is  passed  as   the    inumber   argument   of
           ddi_add_intr().

           Only devices that generate  interrupts  will  have  an
           interrupts property.

     reg   An arbitrary-length array where each  element  of  the
           array  consists  of a 3-tuple of integers.  Each array
           element describes a contiguous  memory  address  range
           associated with the device on the bus.

           The first integer of the tuple  specifies  the  memory
           type,  0  specifies  a memory range and 1 specifies an
           I/O range.  The  second  integer  specifies  the  base
           address of the memory range. The third integer of each
           3-tuple specifies  the size, in bytes, of the mappable
           region.

           The driver can refer to the elements of this array  by
           index,   and   construct   kernel  mappings  to  these
           addresses using ddi_map_regs(9F). The index  into  the
           array   is   passed   as   the   rnumber  argument  of
           ddi_map_regs().

           All  sysbus devices will  have  reg  properties.   The
           first tuple of this property  is used to construct the
           address part of the device name  under   /devices.  In
           the case of Plug and Play ISA devices, the first tuple
           is a special tuple  that  does  not  denote  a  memory
           range,  but  is  used by the system only to create the
           address part of the device name.  This  special  tuple
           can be recognized by determining if the top bit of the
           first integer is set to a one.

           The order of the tuples in the reg property is  deter-
           mined by the boot system probe code and depends on the
           characteristics of each particular  device.   However,
           the  reg  property  will  maintain  the  same order of
           entries from system boot to system boot.   The  recom-
           mended way to determine the reg property for a partic-
           ular device is to use the  prtconf(1M)  command  after
           installing  the  particular device.  The output of the
           prtconf command can be examined to determine  the  reg
           property for any installed device.

           You can use the ddi_get* and ddi_put* family of  func-
           tions  to  access  register  space  from  a high-level
           interrupt context.

     dma-channels
           A list of integers that  specifies  the  DMA  channels
           used  by this device.  Only devices that use DMA chan-
           nels will have a dma-channels property.

     It is recommended that drivers for devices connected to  the
     system bus recognize the following standard property names:

      slot The number of  the  slot  containing  the  device,  if
           known.  (Only for EISA devices).

ATTRIBUTES

     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Architecture                | x86                         |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|

sysbus(4)

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DESCRIPTION

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