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Date:      Wed, 25 Jun 1997 19:50:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      0000-Administrator  <root@counterintelligence.cdrom.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD Info
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970625194147.608A-100000@counterintelligence.cdrom.com>

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Is there a FreeBSD system call or better yet a device that can be
opened
(/dev/io just allows the process to directly do io) and read/write to the
io ports. I need to port some software from linux which to my own disgust
uses inb and outb macros (which are defined in some standard .h include
file there) for controlling a analog io board that has no driver. After I
used the io ports I found out that there was a /dev/port device that can
be opened and read/write to a the file pointer which corresponds to an io
port, anyway with the exception of writing a kernel driver (i really don't
have the patience for that what can I do) also is there some kind of
documentation I can get on ther kernel - particularily it looks like (from
calling usleep(1) in a loop that the system timer runs 50-100 ticks
/second I want to increase this to like 1000-4000 if that is safe (and
won't annoyingly screw up the date/time)






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