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Accessing CP14 from user mode

Note: This was originally posted on 9th July 2009 at http://forums.arm.com

Hello,

I'm currently trying to change the frequency of a PXA270 processor, the system I'm working on is a Linux OS, and I would like to write a code that allows an user to change the frequency, to do so I need to write in a register of coprocessor 14. According to ARM documentation i need to use MRC/MCR instructions, I tried but I got an error : "Illegal instruction".

So I think I need to switch to supervisor mode, it seems that I could do it using SWI but even after reading some documentation I don't know how I should implement this.
I'm not even sure that what I want to do is possible, but if it is, does someone have any idea of the code I should write to switch to supervisor mode and use MRC or MCR instruction?

Thanks,