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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary physical addresses
    On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 09:46:18PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

    > But those tables wont be in regular RAM (they will be in ROM or in
    > RAM marked non-RAM in a special way in the e820 tables).
    >
    > dmidecode certainly works on Fedora.

    I've repeatedly wanted to dump EFI data that's flagged as E820_RESERVED
    above the top of RAM and had to hack the kernel every time. I'm entirely
    in favour of not having to hack the kernel every time.

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    Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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