From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 19 1:36:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CB537B400 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chaos.evolve.za.net (chaos.evolve.za.net [196.34.172.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B75243E6A for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:36:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cole@optec.co.za) Received: from amavis by chaos.evolve.za.net with scanned-ok (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17VTFe-000M5E-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:36:38 +0200 Received: from raven.optec.co.za ([196.34.172.1] helo=optec.co.za) by chaos.evolve.za.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17VTCV-000M08-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:36:33 +0200 SUBJECT: Winbond Hardware watchdog Message-Id: From: cole@optec.co.za Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:36:33 +0200 X-Virus-Scanned: by Opteq - www.optec.co.za To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, im busy writing a program to interface with a winbond IO chip on the motherboard, the ports that i need to write and read from are 2e, and 2f respectively, the problem is that i can read from the chip fine, that works, but it appears as if i cant write to the chip, i have tried both the /dev/io interface as well as i386_set_ioperm f I would like to know if freebsd blocks direct hardware writes, or if there is something else that i need to do in order to allow the write through. My kern secure level is 0 and im running the program as root at the moment to avoid any restrictions. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know Thanx Cole To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message