Re: How can I access h/w registers in user space?

[Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Ardelean, Andrei
<Andrei.Ardelean@idt.com> wrote:
> 1. My video processor has many h/w registers mapped in MIPS CPU physical
> memory space. Do I have in Linux MIPS something like iopl() to allow me
> to access h/w registers in user space? Is it anything similar available?

I believe iopl() is a x86-specific hack.


> 2. I studied mmap() solution but what I found unpleased is that I need
> to malloc() space in user space equal to the IO memory space I want to
> access which it is quite lot and it takes from system DDR RAM available
> I have here. What I need is just to access a physical space which I know
> that is mapped on internal registers.

I usually open /dev/mem then simply mmap() the base of the physical area
I'm interested in.

Hope that helps!
      Manuel Lauss