From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HELP: Linux replacement for "DOS diagnostic" station
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 00:18:10 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2j2g2$298$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 404CFF03.1090601@techsource.com
Followup to: <404CFF03.1090601@techsource.com>
By author: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> So, first of all, we need to make /dev/mem accessible to all users.
> Secondly, we need some mechanism to access I/O and config space, but it
> can be indirect through ioctl.
>
> Is there a driver for Linux which supports I/O and config space access
> for user-space programs in a completely generic way?
>
Just use iopl(3) and do the accesses directly from userspace, or use
/dev/port.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-09 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-08 23:17 HELP: Linux replacement for "DOS diagnostic" station Timothy Miller
2004-03-09 0:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-03-09 12:18 ` Michael Frank
2004-03-09 16:56 ` Jesse Pollard
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