From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Prefered method to map PCI memory into userspace.
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:42:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zngqhmfr.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Aezg.6hA.9@gated-at.bofh.it> ("David S. Miller"'s message of "Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:10:10 +0200")
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
> On 27 Sep 2003 00:03:42 +0200
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> mmap on /dev/mem
>>
>> PIO cannot be done on memory, for that you have to use iopl()
>> or ioperm() to get access to the port and then issue the PIO
>> instructions yourself
>
> Platform dependant, mmap on /dev/mem doesn't work on many systems.
Just curious - what does the X server use on these many systems then ?
-Andi
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2003-09-27 4:42 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-09-26 13:59 ` Prefered method to map PCI memory into userspace Anton Blanchard
2003-09-27 23:38 ` David S. Miller
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2003-09-26 22:03 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-27 4:01 ` David S. Miller
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2003-09-27 5:09 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-27 23:39 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-26 20:53 Jim Deas
2003-09-26 21:17 ` Joe Korty
2003-09-27 0:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-27 4:00 ` David S. Miller
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