Directly accessing I/O ports

[Greg Allen <gallen@arlut.utexas.edu>]

I'd like to get the Linux ethernet card diagnostic tool,
eepro100-diag.c (from http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html) running
on the PowerPC.

Unfortunately, it uses iopl() and inw()/outw()/inl()/outl() to access
the entire I/O port space directly in userland. In fact, much of this
family of utils does the same thing.

I tried something like:
	io_fd = open("/dev/port", O_RDWR);
	iobase = mmap(0, device_size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
		io_fd, device_base);
but I can't get it to work.


Are there suggestions (or code snippets) as to how I should proceed?

For that matter, what's the *right* way to access this sort of thing
from userland?

Thanks,
-Greg
--
  Gregory E. Allen, MSEE Engineering Scientist
  Applied Research Laboratories: The University of Texas at Austin
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