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   5 <book id="s390drivers">
   6  <bookinfo>
   7   <title>Writing s390 channel device drivers</title>
   8
   9   <authorgroup>
  10    <author>
  11     <firstname>Cornelia</firstname>
  12     <surname>Huck</surname>
  13     <affiliation>
  14      <address>
  15        <email>cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com</email>
  16      </address>
  17     </affiliation>
  18    </author>
  19   </authorgroup>
  20
  21   <copyright>
  22    <year>2007</year>
  23    <holder>IBM Corp.</holder>
  24   </copyright>
  25
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  55
  56 <toc></toc>
  57
  58   <chapter id="intro">
  59    <title>Introduction</title>
  60   <para>
  61     This document describes the interfaces available for device drivers that
  62     drive s390 based channel attached I/O devices. This includes interfaces for
  63     interaction with the hardware and interfaces for interacting with the
  64     common driver core. Those interfaces are provided by the s390 common I/O
  65     layer.
  66   </para>
  67   <para>
  68     The document assumes a familarity with the technical terms associated
  69     with the s390 channel I/O architecture. For a description of this
  70     architecture, please refer to the "z/Architecture: Principles of
  71     Operation", IBM publication no. SA22-7832.
  72   </para>
  73   <para>
  74     While most I/O devices on a s390 system are typically driven through the
  75     channel I/O mechanism described here, there are various other methods
  76     (like the diag interface). These are out of the scope of this document.
  77   </para>
  78   <para>
  79     Some additional information can also be found in the kernel source
  80     under Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt.
  81   </para>
  82   </chapter>
  83   <chapter id="ccw">
  84    <title>The ccw bus</title>
  85   <para>
  86         The ccw bus typically contains the majority of devices available to
  87         a s390 system. Named after the channel command word (ccw), the basic
  88         command structure used to address its devices, the ccw bus contains
  89         so-called channel attached devices. They are addressed via I/O
  90         subchannels, visible on the css bus. A device driver for
  91         channel-attached devices, however, will never interact  with the
  92         subchannel directly, but only via the I/O device on the ccw bus,
  93         the ccw device.
  94   </para>
  95     <sect1 id="channelIO">
  96      <title>I/O functions for channel-attached devices</title>
  97     <para>
  98       Some hardware structures have been translated into C structures for use
  99       by the common I/O layer and device drivers. For more information on
 100       the hardware structures represented here, please consult the Principles
 101       of Operation.
 102     </para>
 103 !Iarch/s390/include/asm/cio.h
 104     </sect1>
 105     <sect1 id="ccwdev">
 106      <title>ccw devices</title>
 107     <para>
 108       Devices that want to initiate channel I/O need to attach to the ccw bus.
 109       Interaction with the driver core is done via the common I/O layer, which
 110       provides the abstractions of ccw devices and ccw device drivers.
 111     </para>
 112     <para>
 113       The functions that initiate or terminate channel I/O all act upon a
 114       ccw device structure. Device drivers must not bypass those functions
 115       or strange side effects may happen.
 116     </para>
 117 !Iarch/s390/include/asm/ccwdev.h
 118 !Edrivers/s390/cio/device.c
 119 !Edrivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c
 120     </sect1>
 121     <sect1 id="cmf">
 122      <title>The channel-measurement facility</title>
 123   <para>
 124         The channel-measurement facility provides a means to collect
 125         measurement data which is made available by the channel subsystem
 126         for each channel attached device.
 127   </para>
 128 !Iarch/s390/include/asm/cmb.h
 129 !Edrivers/s390/cio/cmf.c
 130     </sect1>
 131   </chapter>
 132
 133   <chapter id="ccwgroup">
 134    <title>The ccwgroup bus</title>
 135   <para>
 136         The ccwgroup bus only contains artificial devices, created by the user.
 137         Many networking devices (e.g. qeth) are in fact composed of several
 138         ccw devices (like read, write and data channel for qeth). The
 139         ccwgroup bus provides a mechanism to create a meta-device which
 140         contains those ccw devices as slave devices and can be associated
 141         with the netdevice.
 142   </para>
 143    <sect1 id="ccwgroupdevices">
 144     <title>ccw group devices</title>
 145 !Iarch/s390/include/asm/ccwgroup.h
 146 !Edrivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c
 147    </sect1>
 148   </chapter>
 149
 150   <chapter id="genericinterfaces">
 151    <title>Generic interfaces</title>
 152   <para>
 153         Some interfaces are available to other drivers that do not necessarily
 154         have anything to do with the busses described above, but still are
 155         indirectly using basic infrastructure in the common I/O layer.
 156         One example is the support for adapter interrupts.
 157   </para>
 158 !Edrivers/s390/cio/airq.c
 159   </chapter>
 160
 161 </book>