On 08/30/2012 07:48 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.
>

You might look into the linux UIO support.  It allows you to write a 
small kernel mode driver to setup up the card and provide interrupt and 
io access to use mode programs.

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Chris Lesiak
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