Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 28 Jul 2004 09:53:21 -0600 |
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"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> writes:
> /dev/mem expects mem_map to be there, the size of which would easily > blow away the reserved section. /dev/oldmem (or whatever we call it) > is just a magic copy that does a kmap-like operation to get at pages > without a struct page.
Don't we already do that for the mmap case so we can access I/O devices?
But I agree if there is a dependence there having a /dev/rawmem thing that does not need a page struct would make sense. I just don't think we actually need it...
Eric
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