On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:30:43AM +0200, scarayol at assystembrime.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to access to IO ports on a MPC885. The iopl() is not implemented, in
> my distribution, to use inw() outw().
> So I use /dev/port. It works for open("/dev/port",..) and lseek() but when
> i do a read() i have a segmentation fault. I gave all the right to
> /dev/port
> Does anybody have an idea ?
You are trying to use x86-specific interfaces to x86-specific IO space.
By "IO ports" you must mean memory mapped I/O registers since you are
on PPC. From userspace, use mmap() to map physical address space to a
user virtual address range.
-Matt
