7.1.1.3ICEGD_ESCAPE_GET_AVAIL_PD_ATTRIBUTES

 

Input Data Structure

 

Output Data Structure

 

Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All structures below should be with same size and should be

 

 

 

 

 

converted to others according to the attribute type.

 

 

 

 

 

igd_attr_t: General attribute structure

 

 

 

 

 

igd_range_attr_t: Range type attribute structure

 

 

 

 

 

igd_list_attr_t: List type attribute

 

N/A

 

A buffer pointed by

 

igd_list_entry_attr_t : Entry for a list

 

 

igd_attr_t*

 

igd_bool_attr_t: Boolean type attribute

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

igd_string_attr_t: String type attribute

 

 

 

 

 

Dependent on previous call to

 

 

 

 

 

ICEGD_ESCAPE_GET_NUM_PD_ATTRIBUTES to determine size of

 

 

 

 

 

output buffer required

 

 

 

 

 

 

Description

This escape code is used to get available attributes exported by the Port Driver.

ICEGD_ESCAPE_GET_NUM_PD_ATTRIBUTES must be called before it can get the number of attributes. The output is a pointer to a list that can hold all the attributes supported by the Port Driver.

It is always called to get the attribute list of the old configuration for the later use by

ICEGD_ESCAPE_SET_PD_ATTRIBUTES.

Output Data Structure Definition

igd_attr_t is general envelop data structure for all type of attributes. It supports the following five different types:

•range

•list

•list entry

•bool

•string

There are five igd_<type>_attr_t data structures with the same size of structure igd_attr_t (where <type> is one of the above types). The user can generally use the igd_attr_t pointer to any attribute data buffer and access the interested member data by the specific igd_<type>_attr_t data structure, as listed below.

•igd_range_attr_t

•igd_list_attr_t

•gd_list_entry_attr_t

•igd_bool_attr_t

•igd_string_attr_t;

Please refer to igd_pd.h for attribute data structure details.

Example

See ICEGD_ESCAPE_SET_PD_ATTRIBUTES for a complete example.

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