From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 18 08:10:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24459 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 08:10:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24454 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 08:10:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA28319; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:09:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:09:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Bruce Evans cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/ioport[bwl] In-Reply-To: <199811180954.UAA24723@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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