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Add support for userland to access I/O port space. This is primarily

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Add support for userland to access I/O port space. This is primarily
added for XFree86. There are 2 reasons for doing this with sysarch():

  1. The memory mapped I/O space is not at a fixed physical address. An application has to use some interface to get the base address. It gets worse if the machine has multiple memory mapped I/O spaces.
  2. Access to the memory mapped I/O space needs to happen through a translation that is flagged as uncachable. There's no interface that allows a process to do uncached memory I/O, other than though /dev/mem (possibly).

So, until we either disallow direct access to I/O or bus space from
userland or have a better way of doing this, sysarch() has the least
negative impact on existing interfaces.

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marcelAuthored on Oct 27 2003, 5:45 AM
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rG42d00de1a632: sync to 1.77
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