Re: /dev/mem contains physical memory addresses?

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On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 19:51 +0200, George Zhim wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 7/6/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > PHYSICAL. if you want virutal you need to use /dev/kmem.
> 
> isn't /dev/kmem some sort of core file with structures resembling core files ?

no that's /proc/kcore

> how does that relate to virtual memory (isn't virtual memory unique
> per process) ?

it's the kernels view of its virtual memory




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