Re: HELP: Linux replacement for "DOS diagnostic" station

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <404CFF03.1090601@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Timothy Miller <miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> So, first of all, we need to make /dev/mem accessible to all users. 
> Secondly, we need some mechanism to access I/O and config space, but it 
> can be indirect through ioctl.
> 
> Is there a driver for Linux which supports I/O and config space access 
> for user-space programs in a completely generic way?
> 

Just use iopl(3) and do the accesses directly from userspace, or use
/dev/port.

	-hpa
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