ioremap() on ISA memory space

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 09:08:04PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > be compulsory in 2.3 even on i386), but this is not necessarily a mm bug
> > IMHO. It would be better to define a macro that conditionally adds a
> > platform dependant offset for addresses < 16 Mb (I've heard that
> > ISA_MEM_BASE has been killed, and I disagree just because of this kind
> > of things).
> > 
> > I would rather use ioremap(dev->base_address[n],...) for standard PCI
> > devices and ioremap(ISA_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS(xxx),...) for devices which might
> > be on ISA with: 
> > 
> > #define ISA_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS(x) \ 
> > (((x)<0x1000000) ? ((x)+ISA_PHYSICAL_BASE) : (x))
> > 
> > where ISA_PHYSICAL_BASE is a boot time constant (0xfd000000 on MPC106,
> > don't know on others). 
> 
> Incidentally, and somewhat related to this:
> 
> When I was hacking on tulip.c, I wanted to use tulip-daig to get the
> state of the card.  But it uses inl/outl, and on powerpc these have a
> kernel private variable (isa_io_base) in their macro expansion.  Is
> there any way to make the PCI space available to userland on powerpc,
> as iopl() and inb/outb can on x86?

You have to mmap() /dev/mem and store the result in a variable called
isa_io_base first. But the address region you have to map depends on the
machine type :-(

Example: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/PowerPC/sio.c

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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