Re: Proposal: non-PC ISA bus support

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2000 - 15:10:06 EST


Geert Uytterhoeven writes:
> 1. ISA I/O space is memory mapped on many platforms (e.g. PPC and MIPS). To
> access it from user space, you cannot plainly use inb() and friends like on
> PC, but you have to mmap() the correct region of /dev/mem first. This
> region depends on the machine type and currently there's no simple way to
> find out from user space.

We've already solved this on ARM. Check out arch/arm/kernel/isa.c
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