[ILUG] asm/io.h + readl/writel

[jac1]

Maybe you have to compile with optimisations turned on as they may not be 
functions as such, but macros. It's the same with inb/outb.
If you are calling from user space i think you have to have a higher CPU 
privilege level. Call the iopl() function. This has to be done as root or it 
will fail.

>===== Original Message From Paul Jakma <paulj at alphyra.ie> =====
>i may be wrong, but:
>
>- you can not call kernel functions from userspace
>- you can not call libc functions from the kernel
>
>the below is just not going to work.
>
>there are syscalls to access IO ports, outb/inb/etc...
>
>iirc, memory mapped IO is only possible from userspace by mmap()'ing
>appropriate part of /dev/mem. (and iirc this is how X does it).
>dangerous if you get it wrong though.
>
>otherwise you could write a small kernel driver to present that memory
>as a device and allow applications to mmap() it. best to ask on
>linux-kernel about this.
>
>regards,
>
>--paulj
>
>On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Oliver Ryan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> first time user of this group.  Thanks in advance.  Hope my
>> etiquette/procedure is correct.
>>
>>  This is a small program I'm trying to use to read a 32 bit word at an
>> offset of 0x20 from an address in PCI memory (0xfc020000). The number I
>> want to read was memory mapped to here from a PCI device (the address is
>> from PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_2). However it won't compile, giving the error
>> "undefined reference to 'readl' ", even though I've included the asm/io.h
>> header file.
>>
>> #include<stdio.h>
>> #include<stdlib.h>
>> #include<asm/io.h>
>>
>> int main(void)
>> {
>> int *base, status;
>>
>> base = (int*)0xfc020000;
>> status=readl(*(base) + 0x20);
>>
>> printf(" %x", status);
>>
>> return(0);
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> Rgds.  Oliver.
>>
>> Dept. of Physics,
>> National University of Ireland, Galway,
>> Galway,
>> Ireland.
>>
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>>
>>
>
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