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Designing PCI Cards and Drivers for Power Macintosh Computers, Revised Edition
This book describes the Macintosh implementation of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) local bus, a high-performance interconnection for expansion cards, integrated I/O controller ICs, and the computer1s main memory and processor. This book contains useful information for developers who are designing PCI expansion cards and their associated software.
The Revised Edition of Designing PCI Cards and Drivers for Power Macintosh Computers includes updates and corrections to the information in the original document and provides new sections that describe how the NewWorld ROM-in-RAM architecture is implemented in the iMac and latest Power Macintosh G3 mini-tower computers.
Developers designing PCI cards for the latest Power Macintosh G3 models should read the information in the chapters dealing with Open Firmware and the New World architecture to understand how the startup firmware in the new Macintosh models recognizes PCI devices at boot time and stores information that the Mac OS uses to subsequently load the appropriate drivers for those devices.
Part Three of Designing PCI Cards and Drivers for Power Macintosh Computers
tells you how to design and write run-time PCI card drivers for the second generation of Power Macintosh computers. These drivers are called native because they are written for execution by the native instruction set of the PowerPC microprocessor.
Part Three also deals with the Macintosh Name Registry, the Driver Services Library, the Expansion Bus Manager, graphics drivers, network drivers, and SCSI drivers. |
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