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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.)

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