On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

On Maw, 2004-11-30 at 17:34, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

quoted

	unsigned short p;
	fd = open("/dev/mem", O_RDONLY | O_BINARY);
	lseek(fd, 0x400, SEEK_SET);
	read(fd, &p, 2);

You want ports for that not mem, has always been the case since back
before Linux existed.

At offset 0 in the BIOS segment of 0x40, real address 0x400, are
the addresses of up to 4 ports for the serial communications
devices, followed by up to 4 port addresses of any parallel
communications devices found by the BIOS upon startup. This
is likely what he meant. The code shown will return the address
of the first RS-232 device (usually a 8250 UART) found.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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