[PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary physical addresses
From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: 2011-07-05 22:39:41
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On 07/05/2011 10:49 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 09:46:18PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:quoted
But those tables wont be in regular RAM (they will be in ROM or in RAM marked non-RAM in a special way in the e820 tables). dmidecode certainly works on Fedora.I've repeatedly wanted to dump EFI data that's flagged as E820_RESERVED above the top of RAM and had to hack the kernel every time. I'm entirely in favour of not having to hack the kernel every time.
Alright... I must admit I have lost track... Where are we at with this patchset, and what path should it go through? -hpa