From: John R. Ackermann (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Sun Jul 22 2001 - 00:23:55 EEST
Good news! Thanks!
73,
John
--On Sunday, July 22, 2001 7:14 AM +1000 Hamish Moffatt
<rtxnbarw.ruanfxxcfp@s-tyneside.sch.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:26:53PM -0400, John R. Ackermann wrote:
>> Is it possible to do this under Linux without having to write a kernel
>> driver? I'm envisioning a daemon that would run constantly, dumping
>> data values to a disk file for later processing. I'm just not sure if
>> a user-space program under Linux has the ability to access I/O ports
>> directly.
>
> Sure.. There's even a mini-HOWTO about it, called IO-Port-Programming.
>
> It's not too tricky. There are inb() and outb() functions defined in
> <sys/io.h>, and you just have to make a couple of other library calls
> to get the necessary permissions.
>
>
> cheers,
> Hamish
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