Re: [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary

H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-05T22:34:51Z

On 07/05/2011 10:49 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.
>

Alright... I must admit I have lost track...

Where are we at with this patchset, and what path should it go through?

-hpa