From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
To: scarayol@assystembrime.com
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Read in /dev/port with Segmentation Fault
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 02:12:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050609021250.A5659@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF76EEFE38.5001E643-ONC125701B.00283639@brime.fr>; from scarayol@assystembrime.com on Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:30:43AM +0200
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:30:43AM +0200, scarayol@assystembrime.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to access to IO ports on a MPC885. The iopl() is not implemented, in
> my distribution, to use inw() outw().
> So I use /dev/port. It works for open("/dev/port",..) and lseek() but when
> i do a read() i have a segmentation fault. I gave all the right to
> /dev/port
> Does anybody have an idea ?
You are trying to use x86-specific interfaces to x86-specific IO space.
By "IO ports" you must mean memory mapped I/O registers since you are
on PPC. From userspace, use mmap() to map physical address space to a
user virtual address range.
-Matt
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2005-06-09 7:30 Read in /dev/port with Segmentation Fault scarayol
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