Accessing flash directly from User Space

[Jonathan Haws]

> > How can I get that pointer?  Unfortunately I cannot simply use the
> address of the flash.  Is there some magical function call that
> gives me access to that portion of the memory space?
> >
> 
> $ man 2 mmap
> 
> You want MAP_SHARED and O_SYNC.


To use that I need to have a file descriptor to a device, do I not?  However, I do not have a base flash driver to give me that file descriptor.  Am I missing something with that call?

Thanks!