Hi Greg Yes I have read the book and some of it does make sense to me. What doesnt make sense though is that my pci.h file that I have found /include/linux only has like 30 lines max? None of the functions in the book are in the header. Thanks Testo On 8/18/2014 10:35 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 09:50:44AM +0200, testlaster wrote: >> Hey Guys >> >> Im writing a PCI driver in Linux ( Lubuntu ). Now its not an entire >> driver its really just a little program that will latch onto a space of >> ram and dump the entire content of the ram into a file. >> I have done this before in a Unix/Linux based OS and it took me quite a >> while to figure it out. >> >> So at startup the configuration for the PCI is already done so I wont >> have to do any of that myself. >> I really just need to set a pointer to a register. >> >> My problem is that I cant find the functions to do that for linux. >> I cant find similar functions to things like : >> PCI_ATTACH() >> pci_attach_device(); >> mmap_device_memory(); >> >> I think that is really all I need at the moment. >> Anybody have some ideas of where I can start looking? > Have you read the book, Linux Device Drivers, 3rd edition, it's free > online and has a whole chapter on PCI that should answer these questions > for you. > > If not, please feel free to post your code and we will be glad to review > it. > > thanks, > > greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
