Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Accessing RAM from userspace

["Martin.J Thompson" <Martin.J.Thompson@xxxxxxx>]

>>> On 07 October 2009 at 09:21, in message
<78bd500b0910070121y6c92ce03o16647574bf1b20dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Enrique
<microdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> first of all, i am totally aware that my intention is not state of the art,
> it's just for testing:
> 
> i am trying to access a status register of some modified uart directly from
> userspace. register is located at : 0xc6400000 (base) 0xc6400020 (high).
> is it possible to read the data via some userspace application? it would be
> a lot easier to have a small testing application than always recompiling
> kernel with a special driver module and rebooting...

Not answering your actual query, but if you have telnetd and ftpd running on your embedded system, you can just rmmod the module, ftp a new one to the ramdisk and insmod it. All from the comfort of your desk :)

Would that help?

Cheers,
Martin
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