All functionality of the driver is accessible trough a number of device files, with all the same major device number (currently 61, in the source code UNIVERSE_MAJOR) and different minor device numbers. These are:
/dev/vme_stat
.
cat'ing thist device gives the cuurent driver status, just
like /dev/sndstat
for the sound driver./dev/vme_ctl
.
This file is used for controlling the overall behaviour of the VME-Bus
and global operations such as Reset.select()
or blocking read()
.