<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@brouhaha" class="u-url mention">@<span>brouhaha</span></a></span> I&#39;d guess classical &quot;driver in userspace&quot;, poking registers of something memory-mapped (in the hardware sense, not in the unix-syscall sense).</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@brouhaha" class="u-url mention">@<span>brouhaha</span></a></span> it wants to mmap it</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> oops! all zeroes</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> so this is the kind of pets you have</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <br />Or maybe<br />ln -s /dev/zero dev/mem<br />?<br />Unless it needs to get the size of dev/mem, or write to it?<br />What nefarious stuff is it trying to do with /dev/mem, anyhow?</p>

<p>it was really, *really* unhappy about not having /dev/mem, so i did `touch dev/mem; truncate -s 4GiB dev/mem` and now it&#39;s happy</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@rakslice" class="u-url mention">@<span>rakslice</span></a></span> that had waaaaaaay too much effort put into it for that</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> this and squirrel gives this the feel of somebody&#39;s-student-family-member-spare-time-project</p>

<p>it&#39;s really unhappy about being unable to open /dev/mem (lol no) and /dev/isp (not on my laptop SoC for sure)</p>