DDI_POKE(9F)DDI_POKE(9F)NAME
ddi_poke, ddi_poke8, ddi_poke16, ddi_poke32, ddi_poke64, ddi_pokec,
ddi_pokes, ddi_pokel, ddi_poked - write a value to a location
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/ddi.h>
#include <sys/sunddi.h>
int ddi_poke8(dev_info_t *dip, int8_t *addr, int8_t value);
int ddi_poke16(dev_info_t *dip, int16_t *addr, int16_t value);
int ddi_poke32(dev_info_t *dip, int32_t *addr, int32_t value);
int ddi_poke64(dev_info_t *dip, int64_t *addr, int64_t value);
INTERFACE LEVEL
Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI). The ddi_pokec(), ddi_pokes(),
ddi_pokel(), and ddi_poked() functions are obsolete. Use, respectively,
ddi_poke8(), ddi_poke16(), ddi_poke32(), and ddi_poke64(), instead.
PARAMETERS
dip
A pointer to the device's dev_info structure.
addr
Virtual address of the location to be written to.
value
Value to be written to the location.
DESCRIPTION
These routines cautiously attempt to write a value to a specified vir‐
tual address, using the parent nexus driver to assist in the process
where necessary.
If the address is not valid, or the value cannot be written without an
error occurring, an error code is returned.
These routines are most useful when first trying to establish the pres‐
ence of a given device on the system in a driver's probe(9E) or
attach(9E) routines.
On multiprocessing machines these routines can be extremely heavy-
weight, so use the ddi_peek(9F) routines instead if possible.
RETURN VALUES
DDI_SUCCESS
The value was successfully written to the given virtual
address.
DDI_FAILURE
An error occurred while trying to write to the location.
CONTEXT
These functions can be called from user, interrupt, or kernel context.
SEE ALSOattach(9E), probe(9E), ddi_peek(9F)
Writing Device Drivers
NOTES
The functions described in this manual page previously used symbolic
names which specified their data access size; the function names have
been changed so they now specify a fixed-width data size. See the fol‐
lowing table for the new name equivalents:
┌───────────────────────────┐
│Previous Name New Name │
│ddi_pokec ddi_poke8 │
│ddi_pokes ddi_poke16 │
│ddi_pokel ddi_poke32 │
│ddi_poked ddi_poke64 │
└───────────────────────────┘
Jan 16, 2006 DDI_POKE(9F)