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authorgene <gene@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-06-15 23:35:41 +0000
committergene <gene@cvs.openbsd.org>1997-06-15 23:35:41 +0000
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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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+.\" 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.
+.\"
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+.\" without specific prior written permission.
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+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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+.\" 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 .