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sdhost

sdhost(7D)							      Devices								sdhost(7D)

NAME

       sdhost - Standard-compliant Secure Digital slot driver

SYNOPSIS

       pciclass,080500@unit-address
       pciclass,080501@unit-address

DESCRIPTION

       The sdhost driver supports Secure Digital (SD) standard media slots commonly found on mobile computers.

FILES

       Memory  card  device  files  are created by the sdcard(7D) driver. An attachment point device file is created for each physical slot on the
       system:

       /dev/sdcardx/y		     Attachment point for slot y on controller x. Typically this is named /dev/sdcard0/0.

       /kernel/drv/sdhost	     32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

       /kernel/drv/amd64/sdhost      64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

       /kernel/drv/sparcv9/sdhost    64-bit ELF kernel module (SPARC).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |SPARC, x86		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsdcard		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       cfgadm_sdcard(1M), attributes(5), sda(7D), sdcard(7D)

       System Administration Guide, Volume I

       System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

SunOS 5.11							    8 Jan 2009								sdhost(7D)