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From: Misbah khan <misbah_khan@engineer.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Where are inb/outb macros?
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:05:13 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13091078.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710070146.51140.arnd@arndb.de>


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 

misbah


Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 06 October 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 00:47 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
>> > Hello All!
>> > I can't compile one small software title because of lack <sys/io.h>
>> > and inb/outb macros. What sould I do to overcome this obstacle?
>> > 
>> > My linux distro is Fedora 7 if it is matter.
>> 
>> They don't exist in user space on non-x86. You have to do things
>> differently. What is your software trying to do ? If it's trying to
>> access a PCI device IO space, you probably want to mmap it in sysfs and
>> write your own accessors with appropriate memory barriers.
> 
> All cases where I've seen application software use <sys/io.h>, there was
> actually a full device driver in the kernel that already exported a 
> high-level interface to user space. If that's the case here, the
> application
> should use that instead of sysfs.
> 
> 	Arnd <><
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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 [this message]
2007-10-08  8:11       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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