On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Actually there is almost nothing left that uses /dev/{mem,kmem} these days.
Last time I checked /dev/mem worked as expected. For Alpha /dev/mem is
used to emulate PCI/ISA I/O space accesses (ioperm(), inb/outb() and
friends) by glibc. At least XFree86 and SVGATextMode make use of these
features. I suppose it's the same for MIPS (I haven't checked, though).
In general /dev/mem is useful for poking at hardware from user space. On
the other hand, /dev/kmem is not very useful anymore, indeed.
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