.\" 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.
.\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
.\" @(#)mem.4 8.1 (Berkeley) %G%
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.
physical memory may be discontiguous;
kernel virtual memory begins at
.Bl -tag -width /dev/kmem -compact