Fading Coder

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Accessing Physical Memory with /dev/mem and mmap on Linux

Accessing Physical Memory with /dev/mem and mmap on Linux Overview For low-level debugging and register poking, user-space can reach device registers or RAM by mapping physical addresses through /dev/mem. Tools like devmem do this by invoking mmap on the /dev/mem character device, establishing a vir...