Know which drivers are being used by QNX6?

Hi,

I have been reading manuals (User Guides, utility reference) but I was not able to find anything which tells me what hard ware driver my system is using currently.

For example, if I want to know the name of the driver being used by io-net, how can I do it? Similarly for my PCMCIA card, Graphics Card, etc?

I know I can look it up at on QNX Hardware support site
but it is very cumbersome as first I will have to find out the hardware name and version and then check against the database in the above link.

Is there anything like lsmod (in Unix, Linux) on QNX6?

Thanks

This is QNX, drivers are not in the kernel, they are regular processes (or libraries in regular processes).

Thus, there is no need for a special command like lsmod, which has to dig into the kernel via a special interface to determine what drivers are installed.

In QNX you query for drivers, exactly as you would for processes, using pidin (you could use ps, but it has a yucky UI).

So, if the driver is a process:

pidin

If the driver is a shared library (DLL) then:

pidin mem (to see DLLs that are mapped into the process)

For example, on my system (QNX running on VMware), I just ran:

# pidin -pio-net mem                                                           
     pid tid name               prio STATE           code  data         stack  
   81935   1 sbin/io-net         10o SIGWAITINFO       64K  480K  8192(516K)*  
   81935   2 sbin/io-net         20o RECEIVE           64K  480K  4096(132K)   
   81935   3 sbin/io-net         10o RECEIVE           64K  480K   4096(68K)   
   81935   4 sbin/io-net         10o RECEIVE           64K  480K   4096(68K)   
   81935   5 sbin/io-net         10o RECEIVE           64K  480K   4096(68K)   
   81935   6 sbin/io-net         21r RECEIVE           64K  480K  4096(132K)   
            libc.so.2          @b0300000             360K   12K                
            npm-tcpip.so       @b8200000             276K   24K                
            devn-pcnet.so      @b824d000              40K  4096                
            sbin/io-net        @ 8046000 (       0)        8192                
            sbin/io-net        @b035d000 (       0)        4096                

Sure, enough VMware emulates the AMD pcnet NIC, and that is the driver that is loaded (as a shared library) into io-net. What could be simpler?

I could be simpler if I could know the arguments passed to each driver ;-)

I assume you are referring to the case whether the driver is mounted?

Well, since you are volunteering, the source is on F27, so you can add the ability for the mount() handler to stuff the args away somewhere (in a thread_key, might be a good place), and then define an interface by which pidin can retrieve them (a generic ability for pidin to extract arbitrary thread key data would be very useful actually ;-)

Thanks rgallen for the detailed explanation. That was helpful.