Bus-Independent Device Accesses

Matthew Wilcox


      
     

Alan Cox


      
     

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Known Bugs And Assumptions
3. Memory Mapped IO
Getting Access to the Device
Accessing the device
ISA legacy functions
4. Port Space Accesses
Port Space Explained
Accessing Port Space
5. Public Functions Provided
virt_to_phys - map virtual addresses to physical
phys_to_virt - map physical address to virtual
ioremap - map bus memory into CPU space
check_signature - find BIOS signatures