From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frederic Marmond Subject: Linear memory access, and register-modifier debugger Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:36:17 +0200 Sender: linux-assembly-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D072421.2060905@eprocess.fr> References: <3D06ED6F.6090804@eprocess.fr> Reply-To: fmarmond@eprocess.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org I'm sorry to send it again, but I had troubles with my suscribtion, obliged to re-suscribe to the list So, (as the archive is down) i couldn't read any (if any) answer... could you please re-post me answer if, if you have one... by the way: I'm looking for a debugger capable of changing registers while executing the code (during a break-point for exemple), or/and best, modifying the code itself in memory. for the code brk :08048081 6689c0 mov ax, ax when steping to this breakpoint, filling the 6689c0 by 909090, to disable this wonderfull instruction, and step to the following! ;-) ok, I know, there are 'pro' debuggers under windows. I've use turboDebugger (borland, under dos) from my young time... but now, under GNU/linux, I miss it! (perhapse that under Linux, there is no bug at all, opposate to windows... ;-)) thanks in advance! Fred > Hi all, > > I'd like to access to a memory area on a mtd device, without having > compiling the mtd support in the kernel. > (read a firmware info, on a embeded environment => kernel as small as > possible) > Is there any isue? > > I mean: > is the device mapped anywhere, or is it really invisible, if i don't > compile the mtd support? > If it is visible (how can i check that point?) do you know if there is > any way to access it (like in flat mode, by a largest descriptor or > something...)? > > > thanks for answers! > > Fred > >