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. > Well, this would be fine for X-86 architecture, but not on memory-mapped ones like ARM. But, if their versions of inb() and outb() are different from the ones we use now, that would require some work in rtapi, I guess. It would be nice if we don't have to call a wrapper routine that calls a wrapper routine to do these functions, too.
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