Sun Open Source Program Office

SunSource.net is a site devoted to Sun's involvement in Free & Open Source projects. You can come here to find the latest news from any of the Free & Open Source projects with which we are involved. Visitors can subscribe to the discuss@sunsource.net mail list to engage Sun in general discussions about Free & Open Source, our policies, our use of Open Source licenses or anything else pertaining to Free & Open Source. The SunSource.net site also provides convenient links to all of the project sites, and there is a convenient archive of previous news and mail list discussions.

 Solaris Device Driver Development Tools

WinDriver for Solaris automates and simplifies the development of user mode Solaris device drivers for PCI / CardBus / ISA / ISAPnP / EISA and CompactPCI. No OS internals knowledge or kernel level programming required.

Including powerful tools for hardware diagnostics, automatic driver code generation, and driver debugging, as well as intuitive hardware access API, WinDriver provides a complete solution for creating high performance drivers and custom hardware access applications, thereby enabling you to focus on your driver's added-value functionality, instead of your operating system internals.