• Creation of the Runtime System

• Object Creation and Destruction

• Object Introspection and Dynamic Casting

• Binary Compatibility

• The libkern Classes and Your Driver

• libkern Collection and Container Class Overview

• Using the libkern Collection and Container Classes

• Configuring Your Driver Using the libkern Classes

• Driver Life-Cycle and Matching Functionality

• Notifications and Driver Messaging

• Access Methods

• Power Management

• Memory Mapping and Interrupt Handling

• Miscellaneous IOService Methods

• Transferring Data Into and Out of the Kernel

• Writing a Custom User Client

• A Guided Tour Through a User Client

• Presenting Notification Dialogs

• Launching User-Space Executables

• Presenting Bundled Dialogs

• Internationalizing Kernel Extensions

• Getting the Path to a KEXT From User Space

• Some Debugging Basics

• Debugging Matching and Loading Problems

• Two-Machine Debugging

• Logging

• Testing Strategies

• Packaging Drivers for Installation

• Byte Swapping

• Handling Architectural Differences

• Viewing Values in the Device Tree Plane

• Interrupt Sharing in an Intel-Based Macintosh

• Using the OSSynchronizeIO Function

• Accessing I/O Space

• Debugging on an Intel-Based Macintosh