Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262148AbUK3QNP (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:13:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262165AbUK3QNO (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:13:14 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:14222 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262148AbUK3QKX (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:10:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:10:16 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: "Hanson, Jonathan M" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Walking all the physical memory in an x86 system In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 530 Lines: 18 >>dd_rescue /dev/mem copyofmem > >I'm not sure what dd_rescue is as I've never heard of >it. However, I don't think such an operation can be done from userspace >because I need the physical addresses of memory not the virtual ones. /dev/mem *is* physical. Jan Engelhardt -- ENOSPC - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/