Re: StrongARM tactics
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:00:40PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> For ree:
> How portable is scaning /dev/mem between position 0xc0000 and 0xf0000 in
> 512 byte blocks for some magic number as a concept?
This will kernel oops on ARM platforms that don't have RAM starting at
physical address zero. (Admittedly, this is due to a kernel bug --
specifically, valid_phys_addr_range() not being implemented for ARM.)
xdm has a similar issue:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336220
--L
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