Writing diretly to memory (memory mapped IO)

Yes.

That's not quite C, but you're headed the right direction. You'd better delcaer mappedport a pointer to a volatile data type.

You've got to make sure your task's memory map is set up so that the virtual address to which you're writing is mapped to the physical addres to which you want to write.

The "right" way to do it is probably to write a device driver that impliments the mmap() call allowing the device's I/O registers to be mapped into userspace.

could you please tell us a link where to find an example of such thing?

Just call mmap() on /dev/mem, which is standard on Linux - you do not need to write a device driver.

True, if you know where your hardware is in memory, and you don't have to do anything like scan the PCI bus, or tweak the MMU to allow access to the region in question.

interesting to know that. I'm just thinking of developping a PCI driver that use the memory mapp so that I can declare some variables in my software that are located in the PCI controller of the PCI board (so that the location is transparent for the software), do you know an open source driver that do such thing or an example of to use this driver ?

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Here's a demo driver I wrote about 6 years ago. I don't know how compatible it is with newer kernels.

ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/grante/stuff/demomm.tar.gz

perfect, I will have a look at it to get an example. Thanks a lot!

I think the kernel's PIC API has been re-written at least once snice I wrote that, so you might want to look at a more recent driver for PCI examples.