Accessing flash directly from User Space

[Bill Gatliff]

Jonathan Haws wrote:
>>> 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?
>   

/dev/mem


b.g.

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Bill Gatliff
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