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Re: Help with some low level access

Hi,

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, vinai wrote:


I'm not anywhere near an expert on this, so take what I say with a pound
of salt or so ... :)  I was reading up on the PCI specifications to try
to understand a little bit about drivers, and it was mentioned that the
x86 architecture use I/O space to access devices, whereas with PowerPC
systems, everything is accessed through memory space mapping ...



So you should mmap() /dev/mem and access the memory range that contains PCI I/O
space on your box. This is machine dependent. An example (for CHRP LongTrail)
can be found at http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/PPC/sio.c

In theory we could let ioperm() take care of mapping /dev/mem and setting up
_IO_BASE, based on information from /proc.




#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/io.h>

int main() {
        ioperm(0x00, 0xff, 1);
        printf ("Status register: %x\n", inb(0x08));
        return 0;
}
Thanks, I'm not actually accessing PCI I/O space though, I am trying to access the ISA space (the Intel ISA DMA controller at 0x00).
The above code (not using ioperm) works if I put it into the kernel, e.g in the dma.c driver, but I wanted to use it from user space when I need it (which is why I have ioperm), not to put it in the kernel. There does not seem to be any sys/io.h with the PowerPC libc, and no inb or ioperm functions for user space programs (???), the above program won't build on PowerPC. 

Regards,

Ross..
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