Looking for ioperm maintainer (was Re: ioperm() with ports above 0x3ff)
Andrew Dyer
amdyer@gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 18:52:00 GMT 2008
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Feb 18 21:15, Andrew Dyer wrote:
> > I am having problems using ioperm() to try and access a parallel printer port on
> > a PCI card in my system running WinXP. The port is mapped to I/O port address
> > 0xDCD8. I cannot access the port because the ioperm() driver has a check to
> > limit I/O port accesses to < 0x400.
> >
> > from /usr/src/ioperm-0.4/driver/ioperm.c, lines 95-100
> >
> > /* test input buffer size and parameters */
> > if ((io_stack->Parameters.DeviceIoControl.InputBufferLength < sizeof (struct
> > ioperm_data))
> > || (!ioperm_data) || (ioperm_data->from + ioperm_data->num > 0x400))
> > {
> > Irp->IoStatus.Status = STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER;
> > } else {
> > [...]
> > I can't rebuild the driver as I don't have access to the DDK. Can someone
>
> The necessary ddk files are part of the w32api package in the Cygwin
> distro. You don't have to install the Microsoft DDK package.
>
> > rebuild it with the check modified so I could test it?
>
> The ioperm package has no maintainer anymore since 2006. If anybody
> feels that maintaining ioperm would be something they could consider as
> a fun side job, just read http://cygwin.com/setup.html and follow the
> instructions.
>
Attached is a patch that fixes this issue for me.
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