Re: [QUESTION] I have a question about making device driver

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Feb 4 2008 18:54, ohyama_sec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>I'm writing device driver for parallel port on Linux.

Another one?

>In initial function which is argument of module_init() in my device
>driver, I reserved I/O address region, 0x378-0x37a, with using
>request_region() and regist my charactor device driver calling
>register_chrdev().
>
>After I compile and link it. I insert this module and I can confirm
>that I obtaind the range of I/O address at /proc/ioports. But I
>cannot write data on I/O address line, It means that following check
>program shows "false".

>--- check program ---
>#include <linux/types.h>
>#include <asm/io.h>
>#include <stdio.h>

A userspace program? I thought this was about kernel device drivers.

>int main(void){
>    int base = 0x378;
>    char read, write;
>
>    ioperm(base, 1, 1);
>
>    write = 0xa;
>    outb(write, base);
>    read = inb(base);
>    if((read & 0xf) == write){

Some parallel port chips always return 0 on inb(base), for example
the AMD K6 boards that shipped with VIA Apollo chipsets (1998). On
the other hand, a chipset as old as to carry a i386DX CPU (probably
was all Intel back then) returns the desired 0xA on inb(base).

>        printf("true\n");
>    }else{
>        printf("false\n");    
>    }
>    return 0;
>}
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