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Date:      Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:41:01 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Artem Belevich <artemb@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Venkat Duvvuru <venkatduvvuru.ml@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: PCI BAR mmap
Message-ID:  <20120731174101.GE2676@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:15:22AM -0700, Artem Belevich wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Venkat Duvvuru
> <venkatduvvuru.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > How to mmap PCI  BARs from userland in freebsd?
> > In Linux the PCI BAR appears as a file in the sysfs file system. How ca=
n I
> > access PCI BAR as a file in freebsd to mmap it?
>=20
> It's a bit of a hack, but if you are root, you can access physical
> memory via /dev/mem.
>=20
> memfd =3D open(/dev/mem)
> ptr =3D mmap(NULL, bar_size, PROT_READ, 0, memfd, bar_address);
>=20
> You can even use dd:
>=20
> dd if=3D/dev/mem bs=3D4k skip=3D<BAR_ADDRESS/4k> count=3D<BAR_SIZE/4k> of=
=3Dbar.dump

This probably only works on x86, only for memory BARs, and only if BAR
is already activated. But yes, I did grabbed scanouts (i.e. screen) on
Intel GPUs this way.

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