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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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On Saturday 08 April 2006 23:52, Antonio Di Bacco wrote:
> How can I access the physical memory? Can I MMAP for example /dev/mem? Is 
> there a simpler way?

/dev/mem access is the most simple way. A cleaner solution is usually to
write your own simple character device driver for the stuff you want to
access in memory.

Depending on why you want to access memory, slram may be the right
driver, e.g. when you want to store a file system there.

	Arnd <><