From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 8 14:30:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14524 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 14:30:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14518 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 14:30:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA21733 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 14:23:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA27121; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 23:21:48 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA16379; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 23:21:47 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id XAA07749; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 23:05:04 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611082205.XAA07749@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Q: How to read hardware port ? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 23:05:04 +0100 (MET) Cc: ts@polynet.lviv.ua Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611081449.PAA00718@ra.dkuug.dk> from "sos@freebsd.org" at "Nov 8, 96 03:49:34 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As sos@freebsd.org wrote: > > How can i read hardware port in Unix ? > Open /dev/io and use the inb/outb etc functions, you must be > root though for this to work (with good reason). Better yet, write a device driver doing the actual hardware work. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)