• Before You Begin

• I/O Kit Features

• Design Principles of the I/O Kit

• Limitations of the I/O Kit

• Language Choice

• The Parts of the I/O Kit

• Should You Program in the Kernel?

• Driver Layering

• The Runtime Environment of Device Drivers

• The I/O Registry and the I/O Catalog

• Driver Matching

• The I/O Kit Class Hierarchy

• Controlling Devices From Outside the Kernel

• I/O Registry Architecture and Construction

• The I/O Registry Explorer

• Driver Personalities and Matching Languages

• Driver Matching and Loading

• Device Matching

• The libkern Base Classes

• The I/O Kit Base Classes

• Drivers and Families

• Families As Libraries

• The Programmatic Structure of Families

• Creating An I/O Kit Family

• Work Loops

• Event Sources

• Handling I/O Transfers

• Relaying I/O Requests

• More on Memory Descriptors

• More on Memory Cursors

• Power Events

• The Power Plane: A Hierarchy of Power Dependencies

• Devices and Power States

• Deciding How to Implement Power Management in Your Driver

• Implementing Basic Power Management

• Implementing Advanced Power Management

• The Phases of Device Removal

• Making Drivers Inactive

• Clearing I/O Queues

• Detaching and Releasing Objects

• System Internals

• Websites - Online Resources

• ADB

• ATA and ATAPI

• Audio

• FireWire

• Graphics

• HID

• Network

• PC Card

• PCI and AGP

• SBP-2

• SCSI Parallel

• SCSI Architecture Model

• Serial

• Storage

• USB

• Devices Without I/O Kit Families