08-28-2009
Thank you everyone for their help.
@pludi: I was actually planning to do few tutorials on Linux and play around with the kernel for a bit. Later I can switch on to
Linux from Scratch and go deeper into the understanding of the linux kernel overall. Any suggestion ?
@everyone: As of now, I have decided on installing Fedora to play around. On the Fedora website, the latest release is Fedora 11. Just wanted to know if I should be using Fedora 11 or 10. All the previous releases of Fedora are obsolete and no longer receive regular updates from the Fedora community, so no point using them. Any suggestion, release 10 or 11 ?
PS: Any kind of suggestion or help would be greatly appreciated.
Rohit
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
id32_lookup
id32_alloc(9F) Kernel Functions for Drivers id32_alloc(9F)
NAME
id32_alloc, id32_free, id32_lookup - 32-bit driver ID management routines
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/ddi.h>
#include <sys/id32.h>
uint32_t id32_alloc(void *ptr, int flag);
void id32_free(uint32_t token);
void *id32_lookup(uint32_t token);
INTERFACE LEVEL
Solaris architecture specific (Solaris DDI).
PARAMETERS
ptr any valid 32- or 64-bit pointer
flag determines whether caller can sleep for memory (see kmem_alloc(9F) for a description)
DESCRIPTION
These routines were originally developed so that device drivers could manage 64-bit pointers on devices that save space only for 32-bit
pointers.
Many device drivers need to pass a 32-bit value to the hardware when attempting I/O. Later, when that I/O completes, the only way the
driver has to identify the request that generated that I/O is via a "token". When the I/O is initiated, the driver passes this token to the
hardware. When the I/O completes the hardware passes back this 32-bit token.
Before Solaris supported 64-bit pointers, device drivers just passed a raw 32-bit pointer to the hardware. When pointers grew to be 64 bits
this was no longer possible. The id32_*() routines were created to help drivers translate between 64-bit pointers and a 32-bit token.
Given a 32- or 64-bit pointer, the routine id32_alloc() allocates a 32-bit token, returning 0 if KM_NOSLEEP was specified and memory could
not be allocated. The allocated token is passed back to id32_lookup() to obtain the original 32- or 64-bit pointer.
The routine id32_free() is used to free an allocated token. Once id32_free() is called, the supplied token is no longer valid.
Note that these routines have some degree of error checking. This is done so that an invalid token passed to id32_lookup() will not be
accepted as valid. When id32_lookup() detects an invalid token it returns NULL. Calling routines should check for this return value so that
they do not try to dereference a NULL pointer.
CONTEXT
These functions can be called from user or interrupt context. The routine id32_alloc() should not be called from interrupt context when the
KM_SLEEP flag is passed in. All other routines can be called from interrupt or kernel context.
SEE ALSO
kmem_alloc(9F)
Writing Device Drivers
SunOS 5.10 12 Dec 2001 id32_alloc(9F)