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 <>< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
