On Tuesday 23 June 2009, David Woodhouse wrote:
> And dd on /dev/mem would work, surely?
Actually, reading from /dev/mem is only valid on real RAM. If the nvram
is part of an IO memory mapping, you have to do mmap()+memcpy() rather
than read(). So dd won't do it, but it's still easy to read from user
space.
> I'd definitely recommend making it fixed-endian. Not doing so for JFFS2
> was a mistake I frequently regretted.
Right.
Arnd <><
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