Eric> outb seem to be Intel specific and writeb need to map I/0 memory with ioremap Eric> Which method is more standard for a pci device (portable)? I think writeb() is more portable because e.g. in a PowerPC system you cant use inb(), outb()! Also PowerPC is big endian, PCI is little endian. Sometimes you may have to use byte/word/double word(Intel terminology) reverse inst. to access it in a PPC system. This functions can do it magically for you! -- Bora SAHIN -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/