Re: [Xenomai-help] pcibios_find_device

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

Ramon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm porting an old practice environment in RTLinux to Xenomai.
> 
> In that code I use commands like "pcibios_find_device" to obtain the 
> addresses used by a PCI AD/DA board
> (we access to this device at a register level  using outb commands).
> 
> In the old rtlinux environment my code was executed in kernel mode and I 
> could access "pcibios_...."  commands easily. Is it possible
> to use these commands in user space mode (using xenomai) ?

Not directly, but you may use libpci:
http://mj.ucw.cz/pciutils.html

Note however that you may run into other issues if you intend to use
hardware directly in user-space. It is probably a better idea to use
RTDM to write a driver in kernel-space.

-- 
					    Gilles.