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authorDale Rahn <drahn@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-09-30 05:17:35 +0000
committerDale Rahn <drahn@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-09-30 05:17:35 +0000
commit93f1dd41e975cfb72141eddb115328dafbc39f11 (patch)
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parent9282c7dbcfdf9ac66648d17cdc8c89d4cd7be4a0 (diff)
Add one of the standard manpages, long missing on powerpc/macppc.
Copied from mac68k, with tweaks.
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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.
+.\"
+.\" 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 2001/09/30 05:17:34 drahn Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: mem.4,v 1.1 1997/06/08 17:40:57 ender Exp $
+.\"
+.Dd Sep 30, 2001
+.Dt MEM 4 macppc
+.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 .
+.Pp
+Writeability of these devices is controlled by the system
+.Xr securelevel 7 .
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /dev/kmem -compact
+.It Pa /dev/mem
+.It Pa /dev/kmem
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr securelevel 7
+.Sh HISTORY
+The files
+.Nm mem
+and
+.Nm kmem
+appeared in
+.At v6 .