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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=KO link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Oh my question contains discrepancy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>My real question is whether the output of ioport_map is physical or virtual. (I’m confused)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I know for systems with memory mapped I/O, we can just use request_mem_region, ioremap (maps to virtual address), plain memory access for the peripheral. (the page table sets the area as uncacheable because it’s IO devices)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Chan Kim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;word-break:keep-all'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> ckim@etri.re.kr <ckim@etri.re.kr> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 22, 2021 10:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org<br><b>Subject:</b> question about ioport_map function<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hello all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>From what I understand, to map io ports to virtual memory, we should use request_region, ioport_map/unmap and ioread/write functions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>These are for architectures having input, output machine instructions like x86, x86_64. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>And the return address of ioport_map is physical address.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Is my understanding correct?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Chan Kim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>