Am 16.01.2014 um 06:12 schrieb Dave Cole <[email protected]>:

> On 1/15/2014 9:27 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>> On 1/14/2014 8:38 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>>> On 1/14/2014 5:34 AM, andy pugh wrote:
>>>> Someone on the forum is trying to write a driver for some onboard GPIO
>>>> that needs to be enabled via an INT 15. The sample assembler is:
>>>> 
>>>> MOV AX, 6F08H        Sets the digital port as input
>>>> INT 15H                     Initiates the INT 15H
>>>> 
>>>> Is it reasonable/legitimate to do this with inline assembler in a .comp 
>>>> file?
>>>> 
>>>> Having never tried to use inline assembler, what would it look like? I
>>>> guess we need to put ax back to where it was afterwards?
>>>> 
>>>> Is there  a linux system call to achieve the same result?
>>> Not to derail this thread from the "I used to have to enter hex machine
>>> instructions by hand with toggle switches, and it was up-hill both
>>> ways!" reminiscing, but it should be OK to do an INT instruction or make
>>> kernel calls in the setup portion of a HAL component.  Of course the
>>> execution mode and the interrupt need to agree on things like the
>>> current operating context of the CPU (no calling 16-bit BIOS routines
>>> from 32-bit PAE code!).
>> I was reading a bit more about this today, and apparently how the
>> graphics applications do this is to include a virtual x86 machines for
>> the sole purpose of being able to execute INT calls to the on-board
>> video BIOS for GPUs (which is the only way they can be properly setup on
>> some systems, particularly non-x86 machines with undocumented hardware
>> and closed-source GPU drivers).
>> 
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers 
> 
> That makes sense.   But in this GPIO application, unless the INT 15 
> vector pointer has an interrupt service routine already attached to it 
> via a driver, to service the I/O, I doubt that running the code below is 
> going to have the desired effect.
> 
> MOV AX, 6F08H        Sets the digital port as input
> INT 15H                     Initiates the INT 15H

I think the project has been put to rest, despite a way without 'INT 15H' was 
found - see rest of thread:

http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/24-hal-components/27385-driver-for-hardware-io-port?start=10#42758

-m


> 
> Dave
> 
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