Re: Should /dev/kmem support above 0x80000000 area?

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Jun Sun wrote:

> Here is my patch.  I think it should be safe for mips64.  Please double check
> it.

 I don't think we should allow access to non page-mapped areas as well as
read()/write() for non-memory areas.  That would be inconsistent with the
idea of /dev/kmem and the implementation for other ports. 

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