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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HELP: Linux replacement for "DOS diagnostic" station
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 00:18:10 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2j2g2$298$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 404CFF03.1090601@techsource.com

Followup to:  <404CFF03.1090601@techsource.com>
By author:    Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> So, first of all, we need to make /dev/mem accessible to all users. 
> Secondly, we need some mechanism to access I/O and config space, but it 
> can be indirect through ioctl.
> 
> Is there a driver for Linux which supports I/O and config space access 
> for user-space programs in a completely generic way?
> 

Just use iopl(3) and do the accesses directly from userspace, or use
/dev/port.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-09  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-08 23:17 HELP: Linux replacement for "DOS diagnostic" station Timothy Miller
2004-03-09  0:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-03-09 12:18 ` Michael Frank
2004-03-09 16:56 ` Jesse Pollard

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