Subject: Re: inb, outb, i386_set_ioperm and such
To: Bruce J.A. Nourish <netbsd@bjan.freeshell.org>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/29/2004 00:18:16
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:25:06AM -0700, Bruce J.A. Nourish wrote:
> I'm porting TiLP to NetBSD.
What is that?
> * Are the following definitions of inb() and outb() from FreeBSD 5.2
> appropriate?
If TiLP is anything not only related to i386 machines (in which case this
would be the wrong mailing list), generally this instructions should be
avoided, since they are very machine dependend. Without any background we can
hardly recommend alternatives.
Martin