Solaris 9 & 10 - driver (backward/forward) compatibility

i have to write a pci board driver for solaris 9, and i have decided to do this on a solaris 10 system, as that is what is freely available. Are device drivers compatible from 10 to 9? The driver needs to support simple pci functions, and some memory mapping for dma.
i have looked everywhere, and nobody seems to talk about this.
thank you,
nachum

forgot to mention that the driver needs to run on a sparc, so both the solaris 9 client, and my solaris 10 both are running on sparc workstations.
once again,
thanx
nachum

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