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Subject: Re: Accessing flash directly from User Space
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Jonathan Haws wrote:
>
> How can I get that pointer?  Unfortunately I cannot simply use the address of the flash.  Is there some magical function call that gives me access to that portion of the memory space?
>   

$ man 2 mmap

You want MAP_SHARED and O_SYNC.


b.g.

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