Accessing flash directly from User Space

[Jonathan Haws]

> 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


Ah, yes.  I told you this was going to be a dumb question.

Thanks, Bill.

Jonathan