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From: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
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> Okay, I now have access to the flash memory, however when I write to
> it the writes do not take.


> 			(PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE), MAP_PRIVATE, fd,

MAP_SHARED. Bill told you.  With MAP_PRIVATE you write to a local
in-ram copy of the data, not to the original one.

/alessandro