From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Linux PCI driver.
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 03:35:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140818083503.GA1550@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53F1B054.2020100@gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 09:50:44AM +0200, testlaster wrote:
> Hey Guys
>
> Im writing a PCI driver in Linux ( Lubuntu ). Now its not an entire
> driver its really just a little program that will latch onto a space of
> ram and dump the entire content of the ram into a file.
> I have done this before in a Unix/Linux based OS and it took me quite a
> while to figure it out.
>
> So at startup the configuration for the PCI is already done so I wont
> have to do any of that myself.
> I really just need to set a pointer to a register.
>
> My problem is that I cant find the functions to do that for linux.
> I cant find similar functions to things like :
> PCI_ATTACH()
> pci_attach_device();
> mmap_device_memory();
>
> I think that is really all I need at the moment.
> Anybody have some ideas of where I can start looking?
Have you read the book, Linux Device Drivers, 3rd edition, it's free
online and has a whole chapter on PCI that should answer these questions
for you.
If not, please feel free to post your code and we will be glad to review
it.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-18 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-18 7:50 Linux PCI driver testlaster
2014-08-18 8:35 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-08-18 12:30 ` testlaster
2014-08-18 12:33 ` Greg KH
2014-08-18 13:06 ` testlaster
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