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Re: [ts-7000] How to access I/O from a user space program in NetBSD

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] How to access I/O from a user space program in NetBSD
From: "Eddie Dawydiuk" <>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:50:27 -0700 (MST)
Hello,

> I'm running as root, so I should have permission to open /dev/mem
> RDWR, but the open fails...  I've also set the permissions on /dev/mem
> to 666 so it should be fair game...
>
> Any hints as to where I should be looking for the necessary
> permissions to poke directly at the hardware?

You need a kernel with "option INSECURE", an alternative would be to 
change the securelevel(ie boot to single user mode).

//Eddie


 
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