Re: Walking all the physical memory in an x86 system

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> what have They done with /dev/mem? ... one once could access e.g.
>> position 0x400 of /dev/mem (by seeking) and then read the LPT port value.
>
>Are you thinking of /dev/port ?

No, I was thinking of:

	unsigned short p;
	fd = open("/dev/mem", O_RDONLY | O_BINARY);
	lseek(fd, 0x400, SEEK_SET);
	read(fd, &p, 2);


Jan Engelhardt
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