Re: I/O Mem access - getting confused.

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:06:23 +0200


Hello,

> 1. readb() and friends should get fed bus addresses only.
> 2. As ioremap() returns a virtual address, those addresses should get
> dereferenced directly and Linus' example in IO-mapping.txt should get
> fixed to "baseptr[10]='A';"
>
> Is this correct?

No.

The Right Way to access PCI/ISA memory mapped devices is to ioremap()
the range first and then use (read|write)[bwl] and friends on the remapped
addresses (i.e., the virtual ones).

Have a nice fortnight

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