Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] firmware: export x86_64 platform flash bios region via sysfs | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:18:29 +0000 |
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From: Hans-Gert Dahmen > Sent: 22 June 2021 15:24 > > Make the 16MiB long memory-mapped BIOS region of the platform SPI flash > on X86_64 system available via /sys/kernel/firmware/flash_mmap/bios_region > for pen-testing, security analysis and malware detection on kernels > which restrict module loading and/or access to /dev/mem.
Are you saying that my 15 year old 64bit Athlon cpu and bios have this large SPI flash and the required hardware to convert bus cycles to serial spi reads?
I very much doubt it.
David
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