mmap question on ppc440
Steven A. Falco
sfalco at harris.com
Tue Nov 6 08:02:59 EST 2007
I am attempting to access the CPLD on the AMCC Sequoia board from
user-land. I open /dev/mem, and mmap it, then try to access the
resulting pointer. That works fine when accessing physical addresses
that correspond to RAM, but as soon as I try to access the CPLD at
physical address 0xc0000000, I get an infinite machine check.
I've done this successfully on the ARM architecture, and I've found
examples where people do this on PPC, so I would expect this to work.
Here are a few successful reads:
bash-3.00# ./mm -r -a 0
paddr 00000000, map_base 0x30018000
00000000: c0348200
bash-3.00# ./mm -r -a 100
paddr 00000000, map_base 0x30018100
00000100: 7c0004ac
And here is the machine check:
bash-3.00# ./mm -r -a c0000000
paddr c0000000, Machine check in kernel mode.
Machine check in kernel mode.
Machine check in kernel mode.
Machine check in kernel mode.
My code looks like this (I'll post the whole program if anybody wants to
see it:
if((fd = open("/dev/mem", O_RDWR | O_SYNC)) == -1) {
fprintf(stderr, "cannot open\n");
exit(1);
}
offset = addr & MAP_MASK;
paddr = addr & ~MAP_MASK;
map_base = (unsigned long *)mmap(NULL, MAP_SIZE,
PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, paddr);
Is it possible to access devices like this from user-land? If so, what
am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Steve
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