Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:09:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/ioport[bwl] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9811181108150.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199811180954.UAA24723@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Bruce Evans wrote: > Opening /dev/io gives direct access to i/o instructions. As I discovered. It appears to work rather well. > This is much easier and just as (in)secure as /dev/ioport would be. > Drivers should probably be prototyped using modules. Well, I"m just prototyping the PIO routines which don't need to be tested in-kernel. (Stuff like reading status registers and MAC addresses and such.) -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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