On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > In order to access PCI MMIO areas from userspace, you should open
> > "/dev/mem" (or "/dev/kmem") and then call mmap. The mmap call is something
> > as follows:
> [...]
>
> Look at what he is trying to accomplish... He is writing a kernel
> driver which makes the MMIO areas available to userspace, so opening
> /dev/mem is bypassing his own efforts. :)
>
> In 2.3.x/2.4.x, there is io_remap_page_range which exists for exporting
> PCI MMIO areas to userspace. As James Simmons mentioned,
> drivers/video/fbmem.c is an example of such usage.
Also using /dev/mem is not portable. This will work on ix86 platforms but
not on other ones.
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