Chapter 10. Managing and Using Resources
In Chapter 7 we discussed how to allocate IRQs, I/O ports, and I/O memory. Chapter 8 focused on using IRQs for interrupt handling. This chapter details how to use I/O ports for port-mapped I/O (PMIO) and I/O memory for memory-mapped I/O (MMIO). Before I describe PMIO and MMIO, some background on I/O ports and I/O memory is needed.
I/O Ports and I/O Memory
Every peripheral device is controlled by reading from and writing to its registers (Corbet et al., 2005), which are mapped to either I/O ports or I/O memory. The use of I/O ports or I/O memory is device and architecture dependent. For example, on the i386 ...
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