# I/O Port

&Matthias.Hoelzer-Kluepfel;
&Helge.Deller;
&Duncan.Haldane;
&Mike.McBride;
2002-02-12
3.00.00
KDE KControl ioports system information

## Input/Output Port Information

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.

The first column is the I/O port (or the range of I/O ports), the second column identifies the device that uses these I/O ports.

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