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author | gene <gene@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-06-15 23:35:41 +0000 |
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committer | gene <gene@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-06-15 23:35:41 +0000 |
commit | fa7278e009c21906322f1f3347770594a25fde16 (patch) | |
tree | 9bd3f3fe38207cf7a1b2a0e5b559db62ea7590f6 /share/man/man4/man4.mac68k/mem.4 | |
parent | 96a0c1da6f6ac866619eac93dddeddb255d0bde2 (diff) |
Section 4 manpages for the mac68k courtesy of Colin Wood
(ender@is.rice.edu). Includes some tweaks by myself including a note of the
true HISTORY of the sn driver. :)
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.mac68k/mem.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.mac68k/mem.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a6011227c7a --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.mac68k/mem.4 @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This software was developed by the Computer Systems Engineering group +.\" at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under DARPA contract BG 91-66 and +.\" contributed to Berkeley. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" from: @(#)mem.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 +.\" $OpenBSD: mem.4,v 1.1 1997/06/15 23:35:39 gene Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: mem.4,v 1.1 1997/06/08 17:40:57 ender Exp $ +.\" +.Dd June 8, 1997 +.Dt MEM 4 mac68k +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mem , +.Nm kmem +.Nd main memory +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The file +.Nm /dev/mem +is an interface to the physical memory of the computer. +Byte offsets in this file are interpreted as physical memory addresses. +Reading and writing this file is equivalent to reading and writing +memory itself. +An error will be returned if an attempt is made to reference +an offset outside of +.Nm /dev/mem . +.Pp +Kernel virtual memory is accessed via the file +.Nm /dev/kmem +in the same manner as +.Nm /dev/mem . +Only kernel virtual addresses that are currently mapped to memory are allowed. +.Pp +On the +.Tn Macintosh , +physical memory may be discontiguous; +kernel virtual memory begins at +.Ad 0x00000000 . +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /dev/kmem -compact +.It Pa /dev/mem +.It Pa /dev/kmem +.El +.Sh HISTORY +The files +.Nm mem +and +.Nm kmem +appeared in +.At v6 . |