Heads up - /proc/kcore May Be Going Away

[SONE Takeshi]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:08:22PM +0100, prl-linuxbios at sychron.com wrote:
> 
> Noticed this on kernel traffic shortly after noting that the description
> of extracting Video BIOS in the ADLO paper uses /dev/kcore. I take it
> that there'd be no problem in creating a more specialised architecture
> specific device for extracting things like parts of the BIOS.

No problem, we have /dev/mem. I use this command to extract video bios.

    $ sudo dd if=/dev/mem of=/tmp/vgabios bs=65536 skip=12 count=1

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Takeshi