From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Misbah khan <misbah_khan@engineer.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Where are inb/outb macros?
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:11:35 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1191831095.21971.45.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13091078.post@talk.nabble.com>
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 00:09 -0700, Misbah khan wrote:
> inb/outb could be used from the usr space on x86 class PC-computer to access
> to io ports this is what i assume that you are trying
>
> You need to compile the program with -O option (expantion of Inline function
> )
>
> To perform io operation on ports ioprem/iopl system call must be used (To
> get permissio to perform io operation)
>
> Program must run as root
>
> on non 86 platform try using /dev/port device file in the application
"io ports" don't mean much on non-x86 platforms (or rather can have
multiple meanings) which is why I'm asking what is he trying to od in
the first place.
Ben.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-08 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-06 20:47 Where are inb/outb macros? Peter Lemenkov
2007-10-06 21:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-06 23:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-10-08 6:05 ` Misbah khan
2007-10-08 8:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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