Kernel

Overview

The Kernel Framework provides the APIs and support for kernel-resident device drivers and other kernel extensions. It defines the base class for I/O Kit device drivers (IOService), several helper classes, and the families that support many types of devices.

Topics

Kernel Extensions

• Implementing drivers, system extensions, and kexts
• Installing a Custom Kernel Extension
• Debugging a Custom Kernel Extension
• Generating a Non-Maskable Interrupt

IOKit Drivers

• IOKit Fundamentals
• Hardware Families
• Driver Support
• libkern

BSD

• architecture
• bsm
• hfs
• kern
• Math
• miscfs
• net
• Strings
• sys
• vfs
• vm

Mach

• mach
• mach-o

Utilities

• Debugging
• AppleDSP

Deprecated

• Deprecated Symbols

Additional Reference

• Kernel Functions
• Kernel Structures
• Kernel Data Types
• Kernel Enumerations
• Kernel Constants

Classes

• IOCatalogue
• IOEventLink
• IOEventLinkInterface
• IOGuardPageMemoryDescriptor
• IOHIDTranslationService
• IOServiceStateNotificationDispatchSource
• IOServiceStateNotificationDispatchSourceInterface
• IOWorkGroup
• IOWorkGroupInterface
• OSAction_IOHIDEventService__CopyEvent
• OSAction_IOHIDEventService__CopyEventInterface
• OSAction_IOHIDEventService__SetLED
• OSAction_IOHIDEventService__SetLEDInterface
• OSAction_IOHIDEventService__SetUserProperties
• OSAction_IOHIDEventService__SetUserPropertiesInterface

See Also

Related Documentation

• IOKit Fundamentals
• About This Document