20 SCSI Driver Design Guidelines
There are several categories of SCSI drivers that cooperate to provide the SCSI driver stack in a platform. Table 31 lists these SCSI drivers.
Table 31-Classes of SCSI drivers
| Class of driver | Description |
|---|---|
| SCSI host controller driver | Consumes PCI I/O Protocol on the SCSI host controller handle and produces the Ext SCSI Pass Thru Protocol. If a driver is required to be compatible with the EFI 1.10 Specification, then the SCSI Pass Thru Protocol must be produced. |
| SCSI bus driver | Consumes the Ext SCSI Pass Thru Protocol and produces a child handle for SCSI targets on the SCSI bus. Installs the Device Path Protocol and SCSI I/O Protocol onto each child handle. |
| SCSI device driver | Consumes the SCSI I/O Protocol and produces an I/O abstraction that provides services for the console devices and boot devices that are required to boot an EFI-conformant operating system. |
This chapter shows how to write UEFI Drivers for SCSI host controllers and UEFI Drivers for SCSI devices. SCSI drivers must follow all of the general design guidelines described in Chapter 4 of this guide. In addition, any SCSI host controllers that are PCI controllers must also follow the PCI-specific design guidelines described in Chapter 18. This chapter covers the guidelines that apply specifically to the management of SCSI host controllers, SCSI channels, and SCSI devices. SCSI drivers, especially those for RAID controllers, may include HII functionality for SCSI subsystem configuration settings. HII functionality is described in Chapter 12 of this guide.
The EFI 1.10 Specification defines the SCSI Pass Thru Protocol. UEFI Drivers for SCSI host controllers that are required to work properly on platforms that conform to the EFI 1.10 Specification are required to produce the SCSI Pass Thru Protocol and also produce the Block I/O protocol for physical and logical drives that the SCSI host controller manages. This implies that a UEFI Driver for the SCSI host controller in an EFI 1.10 platform is required to perform all the functions of the SCSI driver stack described in the table above. The UEFI 2.0 Specification and above require the platform firmware to provide the SCSI bus driver and SCSI device driver for mass storage devices, so the implementation of a UEFI Driver for a SCSI host controller is simpler if the UEFI Driver is only required to function properly on platforms that conform to the UEFI 2.0 Specification and above.