Re: Equivalent of ioperm / iopl in linux mips ?

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Wayne Gowcher wrote:
> I would like to access Io ports from a user land
> application. I found a MINI HOWTO giving an exmaple
> using ioperm / iopl and then outb, inb. Searching the
> mips source code I see that sys_ioperm returns
> "ENOSYS" function not implemented.
> 
> Does anyone know how to implement ioperm / iopl type
> functionality on a mips system. Any example code would
> be appreciated.

Like on most architectures that use memory mapped I/O: mmap() the relevant
portion of /dev/mem and read/write to/from the mapped area.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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