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SubjectRe: [RFC 4/4] firewire: add mem1394
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> >
> > +config IEEE1394_MEMDEV
> > + tristate "IEEE1394 memory device support"
> > + depends on IEEE1394 && EXPERIMENTAL
> > + help
> > + Say Y here if you want support for the ieee1394 memory device.
> > + This is useful for debugging systems attached via firewire
> > + since it usually allows you to read from and write to their memory,
> > + depending on the controller and machine setup.
>
> 1394 is evil. Does this mean that if a machine is completely
> dead-and-crashed, we can still suck all its memory out over 1394 with no
> cooperation from the dead machine's kernel? If not, what limitations are
> there?

Yes it can. BenH's firescope tool does this already using raw1394
(I have it working now on x86-64 too). I dont quite see the point
of adding another kernel driver for it though. This can be all
done fine in userspace.

-Andi
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