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     ARCH(3)                       (x86)                       ARCH(3)

     NAME
          arch - x86 architecture-specific information and control

     SYNOPSIS
          bind -a #P /dev

          /dev/cputype
          /dev/ioalloc
          /dev/iob
          /dev/iol
          /dev/iow
          /dev/irqalloc

     DESCRIPTION
          This device presents textual information about PC hardware
          and allows user-level control of the I/O ports on x86-class
          machines.

          Reads from cputype recover the processor type and clock
          rate.

          Reads from ioalloc return I/O ranges used by each device,
          one line per range.  Each line contains three fields sepa-
          rated by white space: first address in hexadecimal, last
          address, name of device.

          Reads from irqalloc return the enabled interrupts, one line
          per interrupt.  Each line contains three fields separated by
          white space: the trap number, the IRQ it is assigned to, and
          the name of the device using it.

          Reads and writes to iob, iow, and iol cause 8-bit wide, 16-
          bit wide, and 32-bit wide requests to I/O ports.  The port
          accessed is determined by the byte offset of the file
          descriptor.

     EXAMPLE
          The following Limbo code reads from an x86 byte I/O port.

               inportb(port: int): byte
               {
                   data := array[1] of byte;

                   if(iobfd == nil)
                       iobfd = sys->open("#P/iob", Sys->ORDWR);

                   sys->seek(iobfd, port, 0);
                   if(sys->read(iobfd, data, len data) != len data)
                       fatal(sys->sprint("inportb(16r%4.4x): %r\n", port));
                   return data[0];

     ARCH(3)                       (x86)                       ARCH(3)

               }

     SOURCE
          /os/pc/devarch.c