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Operating Systems Solaris Where to start Post 302243229 by reborg on Saturday 4th of October 2008 08:27:44 AM

10-04-2008

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To anyone who disagrees with DukeNuke2 and pupp please take their comments in context. Pupp explained what he meant quite well, but it is a case of "When in Rome, do as the Romans do".

Nobody is suggesting that all of the windows knowledge be abandoned, merely that when learning Solaris it is better not to try to compare it to another OS so vastly different in management tools and interfaces as windows. It is much easier to learn Solaris by temporarily suppressing windows knowledge and assuming that everything is new until comfortable.

As pupp said comparison to what you already know can hinder progress, instead of learning the "new way" you simple bemoan the fact that it's not what you already know, and resent having to change. Treat it as something separate so that you are not dealing with change, instead it is all new knowledge and it will be much easier to progress.

Ultimately however the windows knowledge is useful when dealing with mixed environments where NFS/CIFS and AD/Samba are used, which is a large percentage of the total market. Someone who can cross-over between disciplines is extremely valuable.

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ddi_dma_numwin

ddi_dma_numwin(9F)					   Kernel Functions for Drivers 					ddi_dma_numwin(9F)

NAME

       ddi_dma_numwin - retrieve number of DMA windows

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/ddi.h>
       #include <sys/sunddi.h>

       int ddi_dma_numwin(ddi_dma_handle_t handle, uint_t *nwinp);

PARAMETERS

       handle	       The  DMA handle previously allocated by a call to  ddi_dma_alloc_handle(9F).

       nwinp	       Upon a successful return,  nwinp will contain the number of  DMA windows for this object.

INTERFACE LEVEL

       Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI).

DESCRIPTION

       ddi_dma_numwin() returns the number of  DMA windows for a  DMA object if partial resource allocation was permitted.

RETURN VALUES

       ddi_dma_numwin() returns:

       DDI_SUCCESS	       Successfully filled in the number of  DMA windows.

       DDI_FAILURE	       DMA windows are not activated.

CONTEXT

       ddi_dma_numwin() can be called from user, kernel, or interrupt context.

SEE ALSO

       ddi_dma_addr_bind_handle(9F), ddi_dma_alloc_handle(9F), ddi_dma_buf_bind_handle(9F), ddi_dma_unbind_handle(9F)

       Writing Device Drivers

SunOS 5.10							    29 Sep 1994 						ddi_dma_numwin(9F)