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This page displays information about the I/O-ports.
I/O Ports are memory addresses used by the processor for direct communication with a device that has sent an interrupt signal to the processor.
The exchange of commands or data between the processor and the device takes place through the I/O port address of the device, which is a hexadecimal number. No two devices can share the same I/O port. Many devices use multiple I/O port addresses, which are expressed as a range of hexadecimal numbers.
The exact information displayed is system-dependent. On some systems, I/O-port information can not yet be displayed.
On Linux this information is read from /proc/ioports
which is only available if the /proc pseudo-filesystem is compiled into the kernel.
A list of all currently-registered I/O port regions that are in use is shown.
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