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Date:      Sat, 20 Apr 1996 10:43:07 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu (Sujal Patel)
Cc:        eeg@telecom.at, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How can I read/write from/to an I/O-port?
Message-ID:  <199604200113.KAA21461@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960419095909.1260C-100000@xi.dorm.umd.edu> from "Sujal Patel" at Apr 19, 96 10:01:06 am

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Sujal Patel stands accused of saying:
> 
> > Under Linux a /dev/port exits to write/read to/from an I/O-port.
> > Does a similar /dev/??? exits under FreeBSD or must I write
> > a little device driver for this?
> 
> After you open /dev/io as read-only, you can then use inb & outb from
> machine/cpufunc.h--

Note that if you want to use values out of variables you will have to use
inbv() and outbv().

ie out(0x100,0x00) is fine, but you need outbv(0x100,foo).

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