This manual contains information about device drivers specific to SGI Altix systems or Silicon Graphics Prism Visualization Systems running an SGI ProPack 4 for Linux Service Pack 2 release. For information about device drivers on the SGI ProPack 3 for Linux release, see the Linux Device Driver Programmer's Guide - Porting to SGI Altix Systems .
If you are writing or porting a device driver to an SGI Altix or Silicon Graphics Prism system, see Linux Device Drivers, third edition, by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman, February 2005 (ISBN: 0-596-00590-3).
It provides detailed information about supporting computer peripherals under the Linux operating system based on the 2.6 kernel. It provides information on how to write drivers for a wide variety of devices. It is available at the following location:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
The resources listed in this section contain additional information that might be helpful.
Information and support are available through the SGI Developer Program. To join the program, contact the Developer Response Center at 800-770-3033 or e-mail devprogram@sgi.com.
A great deal of useful material can be found on the Internet. Some starting points are in the following list.
| http://docs.sgi.com | SGI technical manuals to read or download
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| http://www.pcisig.com | Home page of the PCI bus standardization organization |
For additional information on SGI Altix system documentation, see the following:
SGI ProPack 4 for Linux Start Here
Provides a comprehensive list of SGI Altix system hardware and software documentation.
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SGI technical manuals to read or download
Note: Make sure you search in the entire Technical Publications Library (TPL) to view Linux and Altix systems documentation.
The following documents are the official standard descriptions of buses:
PCI Local Bus Specification, Version 2.1, available from the PCI Special Interest Group, P.O. Box 14070, Portland, OR 97214 (fax: 503-234-6762).
ANSI/IEEE standard 1014-1987 (VME Bus), available from IEEE Customer Service, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331.
Documentation for the Intel compilers is located on your system in the /docs directory of the directory tree where your compilers are installed. If you have installed the Intel compilers, the following documentation is available:
Intel C++ Compiler User's Guide (c_ug_lnx.pdf)
Intel Fortran Compiler User's Guide (for_ug_lnx.pdf)
Intel Fortran Programmer's Reference (for_prg.pdf)
Intel Fortran Libraries Reference (for_lib.pdf)
The following documents describe the Itanium (previously called "IA-64") architecture and other topics of interest:
Intel Itanium 2 Processor Reference Manual for Software Development and Optimization, available online at the following location:
http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium2/manuals/251110.htm
Intel Itanium Architecture Software Developer's Manual, available online at the following location:
http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/manuals/iiasdmanual.htm
Introduction to Itanium Architecture, available online at the following location:
(secure channel required)http://shale.intel.com/softwarecollege/CourseDetails.asp?courseID=13
The following additional publications may be useful:
Linux Device Drivers, third edition, by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman, February 2005 (ISBN: 0-596-00590-3) available online at the following location:
PCI-X System Architecture by Tom Shanley, First edition, 2001. Mindshare Inc. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-2-1-72682-3.
PCI System Architecture by Tom Shanley and Don Anderson, Third edition. Mindshare Inc.
You can obtain SGI documentation as follows:
See the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books, release notes, man pages, and other information.
If it is installed on your SGI system, you can use InfoSearch, an online tool that provides a more limited set of online books, release notes, and man pages. With an IRIX system, enter infosearch at a command line or select Help -> InfoSearch from the Toolchest.
On IRIX systems, you can view release notes by entering either grelnotes or relnotes at a command line.
On Linux systems, you can view release notes on your system by accessing the README.txt file for the product. This is usually located in the /usr/share/doc/productname directory, although file locations may vary.
You can view man pages by typing man title at a command line.
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