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Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit and 32-bit ports

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mistakenly added wrong email-id of alex, looping his correct one.

On 29 December 2015 at 21:23, Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 29 December 2015 at 18:58, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 23 December 2015 17:04:40 Santosh Shukla wrote:
>>> On 23 December 2015 at 03:26, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>>> > On Tuesday 22 December 2015, Santosh Shukla wrote:
>>> >> }
>>> >>
>>> >> So I care for /dev/ioport types interface who could do more than byte
>>> >> data copy to/from user-space. I tested this patch with little
>>> >> modification and could able to run pmd driver for arm/arm64 case.
>>> >>
>>> >> Like to know how to address pci_io region mapping problem for
>>> >> arm/arm64, in-case /dev/ioports approach is not acceptable or else I
>>> >> can spent time on restructuring the patch?
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > For the use case you describe, can't you use the vfio framework to
>>> > access the PCI BARs?
>>> >
>>>
>>> I looked at file: drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c, func vfio_pci_map() and
>>> it look to me that it only maps ioresource_mem pci region, pasting
>>> code snap:
>>>
>>> if (!(pci_resource_flags(pdev, index) & IORESOURCE_MEM))
>>> return -EINVAL;
>>> ....
>>>
>>> and I want to map ioresource_io pci region for arm platform in my
>>> use-case. Not sure vfio maps pci_iobar region?
>>
>> Mapping I/O BARs is not portable, notably it doesn't work on x86.
>>
>> You should be able access them using the read/write interface on
>> the vfio device.
>>
> Right, x86 doesn't care as iopl() could give userspace application
> direct access to ioports.
>
> Also, Alex in other dpdk thread [1] suggested someone to propose io
> bar mapping in vfio-pci, I guess in particular to non-x86 arch so I
> started working on it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-December/030852.html
>
>>         Arnd
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Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit  and 32-bit ports Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@linaro.org> - 2015-12-22 12:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit and 32-bit ports Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-22 23:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit and 32-bit ports "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-12-22 23:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit and 32-bit ports Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-22 23:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit  and 32-bit ports Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@linaro.org> - 2015-12-23 12:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit and 32-bit ports Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-29 14:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit  and 32-bit ports Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@linaro.org> - 2015-12-29 17:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit  and 32-bit ports Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@linaro.org> - 2015-12-29 17:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit and 32-bit ports Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-29 17:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit  and 32-bit ports Santosh Shukla <sshukla@mvista.com> - 2015-12-29 17:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit  and 32-bit ports Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2015-12-29 18:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit  and 32-bit ports Santosh Shukla <sshukla@mvista.com> - 2015-12-31 10:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/mem.c: Add /dev/ioports, supporting 16-bit  and 32-bit ports Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2015-12-31 16:50 +0100

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