RE: PCI driver in userspace

Daniel Shane (daniel.shane@eicon.com)
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:42:26 -0500


Thanks Stelian!

I think this is a good example to start with. It has all the
interresting features. I hope it also has interrupt handling
to userspace (by generating SIGIO's). Although I dont know
if this is a good idea in the first place.

Daniel Shane

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:55:48AM -0500, Daniel Shane wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for an example of userspace PCI driver, does
> anyone know where I
> > could find one? (Probably not in the kernel source tree, obviously).
>
> There are probably better examples than mines, but you can still
> look at the Andrew Tridgell's 'capture' application which drives the
> PCI Motion Eye Camera device (and compare with
> drivers/media/video/meye.c):
> http://samba.org/picturebook/
>
> You'll find in it quite a number of features, including i/o memory
> mapping, i/o port access, etc.
>
> Of course, one could also direct you to the XFree source code... :-)
>
> Stelian.
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