Help with Dreamcast flash devices

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Mon Aug 12 17:06:38 EDT 2002


On Mon, 12 August 2002 21:54:19 +0100, adr wrote:
> On Sunday 11 Aug 2002 8:52 pm, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > My best guess would be to create something similar to the slram
> > driver, but with different guts. 
> 
> I've looked at slram.c - but don't really understand what it is for.
> What sort of device is it?

Physical RAM, plain and simple. Usually system memory, after passing a
"mem=a_little_less_than_availlable" command line option. Sometimes
NVRAM that is mapped into the physical memory address range.

Jörn

-- 
"Security vulnerabilities are here to stay."
-- Scott Culp, Manager of the Microsoft Security Response Center, 2001




More information about the linux-mtd mailing list