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Bug#465721: libc6-dev: /usr/include/sys/io.h missing from some architectures



Il giorno Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:09:49 +0100
Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> ha scritto:

> David Paleino a écrit :
>
> > Thank you for the quick reply. Is there any easy way to port applications
> > using io.h to these architectures? (/me types google.com in the meanwhile)
> 
> Why those applications want to access I/O ports? Which hardware
> corresponds to them?

libx86 is a library to make real-mode x86 calls to the BIOS. Most notably, it's
used by "vbetool" and "uswsusp" (also known as "suspend"). For x86 machines, it
uses x86 real mode; for others, it uses x86emu as backend.

Kindly,
David

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