From: William F. Jolitz <wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 May 1991 00:24:26 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: 386BSD 0.1 development
X-Git-Tag: 386BSD-0.1~1506
X-Git-Url: https://git.subgeniuskitty.com/unix-history/.git/commitdiff_plain/aa343d84a496a437b37a468ee2580e601b5118ab

386BSD 0.1 development
Work on file usr/othersrc/share/man/man4/man4.i386/mem.4

Co-Authored-By: Lynne Greer Jolitz <ljolitz@cardio.ucsf.edu>
Synthesized-from: 386BSD-0.1
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+.\" Copyright (c) 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
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+.\"	@(#)mem.4	5.3 (Berkeley) 5/2/91
+.\"
+.Dd May 2, 1991
+.Dt MEM 4 i386
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm mem ,
+.Nm kmem
+.Nd memory files
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The special 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.
+Only offsets within the bounds of
+.Nm /dev/mem
+are allowed.
+.Pp
+Kernel virtual memory is accessed through the interface
+.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
+.Tn ISA
+the
+.Tn I/O
+memory space begins at physical address 0x000a0000
+and runs to 0x00100000.
+The
+per-process data
+size
+for the current process
+is
+.Dv UPAGES
+long, and ends at virtual
+address 0xfe000000.
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
+.It Pa /dev/mem
+.It Pa /dev/kmem
+.El
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm mem ,
+.Nm kmem
+files appeared in
+.At v6 .