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SubjectRe: Reading /dev/mem by dd
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On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:49 +0000, "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > In this case, the problem seems to be access over /dev/mem to stuff the
> > kernel is already taking care of. Certainly "as safe as possible" does
>
> Which is often what is desired - eg debugging driver stuff.
>
> > not have to mean making /dev/mem useless for whatever good uses it has.
>
> It does. Plain and simple.

Is that the only valid use of /dev/mem, or even its main use?

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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
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