Booting process & memory layout.

Alessandro Rubini rubini@ar.linux.it
Fri Mar 12 16:32:18 CET 2004


> /dev/mem driver doesn't use mmap(). It makes copy_to_user(__va(p)).

I think mmap support in /dev/mem is standard. That's how X accesses
the PCI memory area, for example. And drivers/char/mem.c has mmap_mem
for all architectures.

Sure the read() implementation is copy_to_user, but mmap() works great.

/alessandro


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