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QNX Software Development Platform
QNX SDP is a cross-compiling and debugging environment, including an IDE and command-line tools, for building binary images and programs for target boards running QNX Neutrino 7.1.
OS Components & Operations
Core Networking Stack User's Guide
This guide introduces you to the QNX Neutrino Core Networking stack and its manager, io-pkt.
Network Drivers
Loading and unloading a driver
You can load drivers into the stack from the command line.

QNX Momentics IDE User's Guide
This User's Guide describes version 7.1 of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that's part of the QNX Momentics tool suite.
QNX Software Development Platform
QNX SDP is a cross-compiling and debugging environment, including an IDE and command-line tools, for building binary images and programs for target boards running QNX Neutrino 7.1.
- Quickstart Guide
- OS Components & Operations
  - Adaptive Partitioning User's Guide
  - Boot Optimization Guide
    The Boot Optimization Guide describes techniques you can use to reduce the time from your board's initial power on until you have a fully functional QNX system running on the board.
  - Building Embedded Systems
    The Building Embedded Systems guide is intended for developers who are developing or building BSPs for QNX Neutrino RTOS embedded systems.
  - Core Networking Stack User's Guide
    This guide introduces you to the QNX Neutrino Core Networking stack and its manager, io-pkt.
    - Overview
    - Packet Filtering
    - IP Security and Hardware Encryption
      The io-pkt-v4-hc and io-pkt-v6-hc stack variants include full, built-in support for IPsec.
    - Wi-Fi Configuration
    - Transparent Distributed Processing
    - Network Drivers
      - Loading and unloading a driver
        You can load drivers into the stack from the command line.
      - Troubleshooting a driver
      - Problems with shared interrupts
        Having different devices sharing a hardware interrupt is kind of a neat idea, but unless you really need to do it—because you've run out of hardware interrupt lines—it generally doesn't help you much. In fact, it can cause you trouble. For example, if your driver doesn't work (e.g., no received packets), check to see if it's sharing an interrupt with another device, and if so, reconfigure your board so it doesn't.
      - Writing a new driver
      - Debugging a driver using gdb
        If you want to use gdb to debug a driver, you first have to make sure that your source is compiled with debugging information included.
      - Dumping 802.11 debugging information
        The stack's 802.11 layer can dump debugging information.
      - Jumbo packets and hardware checksumming
        Jumbo packets are packets that carry more payload than the normal 1500 bytes. Even the definition of a jumbo packet is unclear; different people use different lengths.
      - Padding Ethernet packets
      - Transmit Segmentation Offload (TSO)
        Transmit Segmentation Offload (TSO) is a capability provided by some modern NIC cards.
    - Utilities, Managers, and Configuration Files
      The utilities, drivers, configuration files, and so on listed below are associated with io-pkt.
    - Writing Network Drivers for io-pkt
      This appendix is intended to help you understand and write network drivers for io-pkt.
    - A Hardware-Independent Sample Driver: sam.c
    - Additional information
    - Glossary
  - Customizing a BSP
    While QNX provides Board Support Packages (BSPs) for many common platforms and their individual variants, in some cases, you need a BSP for a board that QNX does not provide. If this is the case, you can modify a QNX BSP or develop your own.
  - Device Publishers Developer's Guide
  - High Availability Framework Developer's Guide
  - High-Performance Networking Stack (io-sock) User's Guide
    This guide contains instructions for implementing and using the QNX Neutrino High-Performance Networking Stack and its manager, io-sock.
  - Instant Device Activation
  - Migrating to QNX SDP 7.1
  - PCI Server User's Guide
  - Persistent Publish/Subscribe Developer's Guide
  - Platform-independent Publish/Subscribe Developer's Guide
    This guide is intended for application developers who want to use the Platform-independent Publish Subscribe (PiPS) framework to exchange information with other applications. First, the overall PiPS design and data-exchange model are explained. Then, tutorials on using PiPS are given. These tutorials cover key tasks such as selecting a publish-subscribe provider to use and writing plugins that read and write custom data types.
  - QDB Developer's Guide
  - QNX Helpers Developer's Guide
    These libraries provide QNX helpers, including helpers that assist with logging, string conversion, and number and type sizes.
  - SMMUMAN User's Guide
  - System Analysis Toolkit (SAT) User's Guide
  - System Architecture
    The System Architecture guide accompanies the QNX Neutrino RTOS and is intended for both application developers and end-users.
  - Technotes
  - User's Guide
    The QNX Neutrino User's Guide is intended for all users of a QNX Neutrino RTOS system, from system administrators to end users.
- Audio & Graphics API
- Multimedia
- Networking Middleware
- Programming
- Sensor Framework
- System Security Guide
  The QNX System Security Guide is intended for both system integrators who are responsible for the security of a QNX Neutrino RTOS system and developers who want to create a QNX Neutrino resource manager free from vulnerabilities.
- Utilities & Libraries
QNX Hypervisor
The QNX Hypervisor allows you to run multiple OSs on a target system so you can separate critical and non-critical functions, support a wide variety of applications, and reduce hardware costs.
QNX Software in the Cloud
QNX Software in the Cloud enables developers to use the QNX software in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (Azure).
QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks User's Guide
This User's Guide is aimed at all systems integrators and developers who want to design and build embedded systems using the QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks.
Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation and explains how to obtain technical support.

Loading and unloading a driver

You can load drivers into the stack from the command line.

For example:

io-pkt-v4-hc -de1000

Note:

Make sure that all drivers are located in a directory that can be resolved by the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable if you don't want to have to specify the fully qualified name of the device in the command line.

You can also mount a driver in the standard way:

mount -Tio-pkt /lib/dll/devnp-e1000.so

The standard way to remove a driver from the stack is with the ifconfig iface destroy command. For example:

ifconfig wm0 destroy

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