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Date:      Tue, 14 Feb 1995 21:54:02 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
To:        guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Cc:        brian@mediacity.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: mapping io ports into user space?
Message-ID:  <199502142154.VAA04834@isl.cf.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199502131653.RAA23429@gvr.win.tue.nl> from "Guido van Rooij" at Feb 13, 95 05:53:32 pm

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In reply to Guido van Rooij who said
> 
> Brian Litzinger wrote:
> > 
> > I'm porting some applications from BSDI 1.1 to FreeBSD 2.0.
> > 
> > A number of the programs use the ioport facility of BSDI 1.1
> > which allows user level access to particular io ports.
> > 
> 
> There is another mechism in FreeBSD. Just open /dev/io. If that succeeds
> you can access all io ports.

Maybe we should implement ioport since we should try and make ourselves
fully compatible with BSDI.

-- 
  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. 
  Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home)
  Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org,  JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK



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