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<concept id="GUID-A849B353-76E5-5AD6-851A-AF18C66AED48" xml:lang="en"><title>Generic
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Driver Support Overview</title><shortdesc>Generic driver related concepts in Symbian platform. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
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<section id="GUID-DBF1C87D-7360-54B7-8658-B6659BF77F06-GENID-1-12-1-18-1-1-13-1-4-1-3-1"><title>Architecture</title> <p>The
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role of a generic device driver is to give a user-side application access
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to peripheral resources without exposing the operation of the underlying hardware.
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A device driver is effectively an add-on to the kernel, and implements a polymorphic
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interface defined by the kernel. It resides on the kernel side and therefore
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has the same access rights, uses the kernel heap and links to the kernel,
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so that it can call kernel functions. Typically, hardware indicates completion
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of an operation by generating an interrupt. This is handled by an Interrupt
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Service Routine (ISR) provided by the driver. An ISR is restricted in what
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it can do, and must complete quickly. So it is normal for it to schedule a
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Delayed Function Call (DFC) which at some later time runs in the context of
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a kernel-side thread. Device driver services are generally asynchronous. A
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device driver includes: </p> <ul>
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<li id="GUID-DE0F5D5C-B3C2-547D-BE5B-EA80FE290A20"><p>A user-side API </p> </li>
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<li id="GUID-33122E07-9C29-5138-8FBD-D8B34195091D"><p>Two kernel-side DLLs,
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each of which exports a single factory function at ordinal 1 to create the
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necessary kernel-side objects, namely </p> <ul>
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<li id="GUID-33F58387-8EB1-559B-9410-F06F76DA436C"><p>Logical device driver
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DLL with a file name extension <codeph>.ldd</codeph> </p> </li>
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<li id="GUID-ED88F823-7883-5BEC-8E50-728F59901D05"><p>Physical device driver
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DLL with a file name extension .pdd </p> </li>
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</ul> </li>
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</ul> </section>
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<section id="GUID-A51AA612-F9DC-4A57-A110-BABB0002B624"><title>Components</title> <p>The
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following components make up the generic driver support collection: </p> <ul>
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<li id="GUID-10D21882-F873-5A7A-BF95-1099CF2D1105"><p>Generic Board Support
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Packages </p> </li>
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<li id="GUID-3537A6C7-9DA1-57D8-9C41-BA15A7647979"><p>Media Drivers </p> </li>
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<li id="GUID-0DDB7C2E-2231-5C12-9650-5BEA71A21A89"><p>SD Card 3C Driver </p> </li>
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<li id="GUID-60CCAEA4-0260-55DB-AD7E-4565C9866A9F"><p>SD Card 4C Driver </p> </li>
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<li id="GUID-D196EB31-A9A9-591D-B193-D51A51CBF36C"><p>System On Chip ASSP </p> </li>
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</ul> </section>
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<section id="GUID-B6DCB613-80AF-416C-A8E2-3321CE02C1C6"><title>Using Generic
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Driver Support</title> <ul>
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<li id="GUID-F905C135-E1B0-5AB1-A131-5136CC4B45F7"><p>Generic Board Support
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Packages - Generic Board Support Packages provides generic code for DMA framework,
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power management and digitizer. </p> </li>
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<li id="GUID-44105C97-F2CD-597C-8645-2A3556B711AE"><p>Media Drivers - The
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Media Drivers collection provides the physical device drivers, called media
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drivers, and associated libraries that manage storage media hardware. Some
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media drivers have platform specific layers that a base port can implement
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for particular types of storage hardware. </p> </li>
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<li id="GUID-1A009040-46D7-5BE9-A31E-CECBF3FC0DF4"><p>SD Card 3C Driver -
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SD Card 3C Driver provides media drivers and generic (PIL) parts of the stack
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for accessing Secure Digital flash memory cards. </p> </li>
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<li id="GUID-813297BC-3DC3-519A-9193-EACB6DDFBA2F"><p>SD Card 4C Driver -
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SD Card 4C Driver provides media drivers and generic (PIL) parts of the stack
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for accessing 4C type Secure Digital flash memory cards. </p> </li>
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<li id="GUID-A424393A-EDA6-524A-9117-6AFB8595EF2D"><p>System On Chip ASSP
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- System On Chip ASSP contains source for common hardware peripherals that
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may be used by multiple BSPs. </p> </li>
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</ul><note> 4C and 3C type SD card drivers are split, as they are available
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under different licenses.</note> </section>
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</conbody><related-links>
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<linktext>Logical Device                 Drivers and Generic Driver Support</linktext>
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