Missing /dev/io on rpi3 running 12-stable
Ian Lepore
ian at freebsd.org
Wed May 20 17:01:55 UTC 2020
On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 09:46 -0700, bob prohaska wrote:
> Is there supposed to be a /dev/io by default in FreeBSD on a Pi3?
> Attempts to start X under 12.1-STABLE r361271 GENERIC fail with
> a report of "failed to open /dev/io". There is indeed no /dev/io,
> but there's also no /dev/io on a pi2 running 12-stable.
>
> Nor does there seem to be a kernel module with matching name....
>
> Thanks for reading!
>
>
/dev/io is an x86 thing, doesn't apply to arm at all. It allows
userland processes with sufficient privs to execute x86 in/out
instructions for talking to old-school ISA bus devices such as
keyboards.
-- Ian
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