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16 years ago

Request_Region

Hi, I'm trying to write an interrupt driver. I have seen that many drivers inside init_function appeared a function like "request_reg_region". I have read some documentation about the function ...
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16 years ago

You should never directly access hardware registers. The new NIOS Linux distribution is able to use the MMU and thus any (driver-) software should be done in a portable way.

-Michael