From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:49:01 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of Message-Id: <20110705174901.GA30531@srcf.ucam.org> List-Id: References: <201106171038.25988.ptesarik@suse.cz> <201107012134.45881.ptesarik@suse.cz> <20110701195629.GA19057@elte.hu> <201107012244.57593.ptesarik@suse.cz> <20110703194618.GB27022@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20110703194618.GB27022@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 09:46:18PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > But those tables wont be in regular RAM (they will be in ROM or in > RAM marked non-RAM in a special way in the e820 tables). > > dmidecode certainly works on Fedora. I've repeatedly wanted to dump EFI data that's flagged as E820_RESERVED above the top of RAM and had to hack the kernel every time. I'm entirely in favour of not having to hack the kernel every time. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org