Subject: Re: Is something wrong with /dev/mem?
To: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/03/1998 09:24:14
> I'm wondering... is something wrong with /dev/mem on VS2000? It seems
> to me that reading, writing or mmaping that should correspond to
> reading, writing or mapping physical memory. However, it doesn't seem
> to work right. mmap apparently doesn't send things to the right place
> and even simple reads of the device with dd can cause "lost mapping"
> errors. What's going on?
>
I don't think /dev/mem supports mmap() on vax. Also, the "lost mapping"
problem should be gone away in post-1.3. What version are you using?
-- Ragge