Thank you, I will go RTFM this was the pointers I needed.

 / Lars

2012/8/30 Jon Elson <[email protected]>:
> Lars Segerlund wrote:
>>  Nicely presented, and I liked the clarity of it, enjoy.
>>
>> http://free-electrons.com/doc/posix-api.pdf
>>
>>  The killer might be to talk to hardware through device drivers .....
>>
> There are methods to access hardware from user mode, but it requires
> super-user
> privileges set on that executable.  The RT system or rtapi may take care
> of that
> for you, I don't know preempt.  But, once you have the privilege, iopl()
> will
> open access to a range of I/O ports for x-86 style hardware.  there is an
> mmap function to access memory-mapped hardware on the ARM CPUs,
> and I have worked out how to do that on the Beagle Board.
>
> Jon
>
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