Re: [amsat-bb] Linux Device Drivers and I/O ports

["laura halliday" <marsgal42@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frederick M. Spinner <fspinner@hotmail.com> wrote:

>The sloppy but fully controlable way of doing this is using ioperm / inb / 
>outb.  You ask Linux for permission to access the io range that
>your printer port is on, and then you just chug away with in and outs to 
>the port....

Nothing sloppy about it; this is the official, documented
way to do it.

Have a look at the IO-Port-Programming mini-HOWTO.

This doesn't give you interrupts, though. For that you
need device drivers. Non-trivial, but not impossible,
either.

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