Can't mmap the top 1MB of /dev/mem?

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Fri Jun 23 03:50:14 EST 2000


Hello, Mark!

Hint: if you are going to program the flash you don't want to allocate the
amount of memory larger than the file you are going to program. And you
probably don't want to erase the initial loader ;-)

But I agree that the kernel should allow you do that and it doesn't.

Regards,
Pavel Roskin


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