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.\" @(#)mem.4 5.2 (Berkeley) 3/27/91
is an interface to the physical memory of the
Byte offsets in this file are interpreted as physical memory addresses.
Reading and writing this file is equivalent to reading and writing
An error will be returned if an attempt is made to reference
Kernel virtual memory is accessed via the file
Only kernel virtual addresses that are currently mapped to memory are allowed.
the last byte of physical memory is always
8Mb of memory, physical memory would start
kernel virtual memory runs from
.Bl -tag -width /dev/kmem -compact