Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS Solaris Dev

[Stefan Reinauer]

Kaufman, Adam wrote:
> Well, I had to do a bit of messing around, but I got both pciutils and
> flashrom to compile on my Solaris 10 box. My biggest concern was the
> /dev/mem wouldn't allow the same access we get on linux...  here's what
> I get:
>
> bash-3.00# ./flashrom
> Calibrating delay loop... ok
> Can not mmap /dev/mem at 00000000 errno(6):No such device or address
>
> Ideas?

It looks /dev/mem only contains ram on solaris, not the complete address
space.

There's a workaround, try using /dev/xsvc instead. It is part of X (or
XFree?) as it seems.

http://blogs.sun.com/dmick/entry/patch_for_dmidecode_2_6