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SubjectRe: Reading /dev/mem by dd
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> Is that the only valid use of /dev/mem, or even its main use?
>
> These days it is the primary use. Things like X11 were historically
> probably the biggest user of it, and things like LRMI sometimes need that
> sort of stuff.

how does X11 get now direct access to the physical memory (instead of
/dev/mem) ?


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