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SubjectRE: [PATCH] firmware: export x86_64 platform flash bios region via sysfs
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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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