The Generic LAN Driver (GLD) Media Access Control (MAC) information (gld_mac_info) structure is the main data interface between the device-specific driver and GLD. It contains data required by GLD and a pointer to an optional additional driver-specific information
structure.
The gld_mac_info structure should be allocated using gld_mac_alloc() and deallocated using gld_mac_free(). Drivers can make no assumptions about the length of this structure, which might be different in different releases of Solaris
and/or GLD. Structure members private to GLD, not documented here, should not be set or read by the device-specific driver.
STRUCTURE MEMBERS
caddr_t gldm_private; /* Driver private data */
int (*gldm_reset)(); /* Reset device */
int (*gldm_start)(); /* Start device */
int (*gldm_stop)(); /* Stop device */
int (*gldm_set_mac_addr)(); /* Set device phys addr */
int (*gldm_set_multicast)(); /* Set/delete */
/* multicast address */
int (*gldm_set_promiscuous)();
/* Set/reset promiscuous */
/* mode*/
int (*gldm_send)(); /* Transmit routine */
u_int (*gldm_intr)(); /* Interrupt handler */
int (*gldm_get_stats)(); /* Get device statistics */
int (*gldm_ioctl)(); /* Driver-specific ioctls */
char *gldm_ident; /* Driver identity string */
uint32_t gldm_type; /* Device type */
uint32_t gldm_minpkt; /* Minimum packet size */
/* accepted by driver */
uint32_t gldm_maxpkt; /* Maximum packet size */
/* accepted by driver */
uint32_t gldm_addrlen; /* Physical address */
/* length */
int32_t gldm_saplen; /* SAP length for */
/* DL_INFO_ACK */
unsigned char *gldm_broadcast_addr; /* Physical broadcast */
/* addr */
unsigned char *gldm_vendor_addr; /* Factory MAC address */
t_uscalar_t gldm_ppa; /* Physical Point of */
/* Attachment (PPA) number */
dev_info_t *gldm_devinfo; /* Pointer to device's */
/* dev_info node */
ddi_iblock_cookie_tgldm_cookie; /* Device's interrupt */
/* block cookie */
int gldm_margin /* accepted data beyond */
/*gldm_maxpkt */
uint32_t gldm_capabilities; /* Device capabilities */
Below is a description of the members of the gld_mac_info structure that are visible to the device driver.
gldm_private
This structure member is private to the device-specific driver and is not used or modified by GLD. Conventionally, this is used as a pointer to private data, pointing to a driver-defined and driver-allocated per-instance data structure.
The following group of structure members must be set by the driver before calling gld_register(), and should not thereafter be modified by the driver; gld_register() can use or cache the values of some of these structure members, so changes made by the
driver after calling gld_register() might cause unpredicted results.
Pointer to driver entry point; can be NULL; see gld(9E).
gldm_ident
Pointer to a string containing a short description of the device. It is used to identify the device in system messages.
gldm_type
The type of device the driver handles. The values currently supported by GLD are DL_ETHER (IEEE 802.3 and Ethernet Bus), DL_TPR (IEEE 802.5 Token Passing Ring), and DL_FDDI (ISO 9314-2 Fibre Distributed Data Interface). This
structure member must be correctly set for GLD to function properly.
Support for the DL_TPR and DL_FDDI media types is obsolete and may be removed in a future release of Solaris.
gldm_minpkt
Minimum ServiceDataUnit size --- the minimum packet size, not including the MAC header, that the device will transmit. This can be zero if the device-specific driver can handle any required padding.
gldm_maxpkt
Maximum ServiceDataUnit size --- the maximum size of packet, not including the MAC header, that can be transmitted by the device. For Ethernet, this number is 1500.
gldm_addrlen
The length in bytes of physical addresses handled by the device. For Ethernet, Token Ring, and FDDI, the value of this structure member should be 6.
gldm_saplen
The length in bytes of the Service Access Point (SAP) address used by the driver. For GLD-based drivers, this should always be set to -2, to indicate that two-byte SAP values are supported and that the SAP appears after the physical address in a DLSAP
address. See the description under ``Message DL_INFO_ACK'' in the DLPI specification for more details.
gldm_broadcast_addr
Pointer to an array of bytes of length gldm_addrlen containing the broadcast address to be used for transmit. The driver must allocate space to hold the broadcast address, fill it in with the appropriate value, and set gldm_broadcast_addr to
point at it. For Ethernet, Token Ring, and FDDI, the broadcast address is normally 0xFF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF.
gldm_vendor_addr
Pointer to an array of bytes of length gldm_addrlen containing the vendor-provided network physical address of the device. The driver must allocate space to hold the address, fill it in with information read from the device, and set gldm_vendor_addr to
point at it.
gldm_ppa
The Physical Point of Attachment (PPA) number for this instance of the device. Normally this should be set to the instance number, returned from ddi_get_instance(9F).
Drivers set this value to the amount of data in bytes that the device can transmit beyond gldm_maxpkt. For example, if an Ethernet device can handle packets whose payload section is no greater than 1522 bytes and the gldm_maxpkt is set to 1500
(as is typical for Ethernet), then gldm_margin is set to 22. The registered gldm_margin value is reported in acknowledgements of the DLIOCMARGININFO ioctl (see dlpi(7P)).
gldm_capabilities
Bit-field of device capabilities. If the device is capable of reporting media link state, the GLD_CAP_LINKSTATE bit should be set.