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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Frank v Waveren <fvw@var.cx>
Cc: Kernel Developer List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How do I access ioports from userspace?
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:27:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1064561225.28616.15.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030926052636.GA15006@var.cx>

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 07:26, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:03:51PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to access some ioports to some custom hardware directly
> > from userspace, without creating a specialized kernel-level driver.  Is
> > there a way to do that?
> Either use /dev/port, or if it's performance critical (but not performance
> critical enough to do in kernelspace), use ioperm/iopl and inb/outb.

Simple note: the above will work on x86 only...

Ben.




  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-26  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-25 23:03 How do I access ioports from userspace? Matthew Dharm
2003-09-25 23:21 ` Greg KH
2003-09-26  5:26 ` Frank v Waveren
2003-09-26  7:27   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-09-26  7:34     ` Frank v Waveren
2003-09-26  7:40       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-26  8:29         ` Frank v Waveren
2003-09-26  8:56         ` Jes Sorensen
2003-09-28 23:07           ` Peter Chubb

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