Re: io.h and I/O port access from user space

Well, since you ask and at the risk of further demonstrating my
ignorance:

Yes, I have ISA slots - well, actually, I have a PC/104 stack.

Specifically, I've got an inhouse 603ev/MPC106 board on a PC/104 form
factor running a linuxppc 2.4.x kernel.  I've been using an Adastra
NSP-104 PC/104 module as my network interface card.  That card,
besides its ethernet chip, also has a Super I/O PC87338 chip that
controls two serial ports (i.e. SCC1 and SCC2).  Naturally, I just had
to use those two serial ports, and, of course, it doesn't have nice
little jumpers to set IRQ and IO base addresses.  Instead, it wants to
be configured using Plug-n-Play which I obviously know nothing about.
Anyways, I thought, hey, I'll investigate by using this nifty
isapnptools package.  Silly me.

But beyond my specific problem, I guess it got me to wondering in
general about the proper way to write user space programs using
inb/outb (and in my wildest fantasies of submiting a patch for
isapnptools).

The best way here is to use the mmap facility of /proc/bus/pci to
mmap the IO space of the bus into your userland space, and then
write your own accessors.

Ben.


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