On Thu, Aug 30, 2012, at 08:48 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 30 August 2012 05:16, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 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 think rtapi already includes rtapi_inb() and rtapi_outb() which
> presumably (hopefully?) could be abstracted.
> A lot of the drivers don't actually use them, but could presumably be
> made to.

rtapi_inb() and rtapi_outb() alone won't be able to do the job.  It
looks like some separate preparatory work needs to be done, such as
requesting access to the ports.  That is a one-time thing that needs
to be done as part of component initialization, rather than at each
port access.  So another function would be needed to wrap that.  It
could be a do-nothing function for kernel module based code, and do
whatever is actually needed for rt-preempt based code.
-- 
  John Kasunich
  [email protected]


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