Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 07:53:37 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> To: Luiz de Barros <luiz@nlink.com.br> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: talk to I/O Devices. Message-ID: <19970416075337.16693@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970416101425.14514I-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br>; from Luiz de Barros on Wed, Apr 16, 1997 at 10:18:14AM -0300 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970416101425.14514I-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br>
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Luiz de Barros scribbled this message on Apr 16:
> Dear FreeBSD Experts,
>
> I would like to know how i can talk to an input/output device attached to
> some I/O ports in C. I want something equivalent to outportb and inportb
> from DOS. The board we want to develop is a remote power controller to
> reset our computers in case of a crash. The board will be controlled by
> I/O ports.
this is relativily easy... all you need to do is open the /dev/io file...
this will give you access to the io ports... then you use the out[wb] and
in[wb] macros/functions in machine/cpufunc.h to perform the operations..
something like this works:
#include <machine/cpufunc.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <err.h>
void main()
{
int i;
if(open("/dev/io", O_RDWR, 0) == -1)
err(1, "open of /dev/io failed");
outb(0x3c8, 0);
outb(0x3c9, 0);
outb(0x3c9, 0);
outb(0x3c9, 0);
}
hope this helps... ttyl...
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