30 Jan
2007
30 Jan
'07
2:03 a.m.
In message 1defaf580701291628s572e1092re30ea906140e2a30@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
Maybe it would be better to create a different set of commands for manipulating any kind of raw storage (including flash) and let the memory commands deal with memory.
Exclude flash here, and we already have such an interface: "<bus> read ..." and "<bus> write", for example "eeprom read" or "ide read" or "usb read" or ...
Exactly. It's just absurd to pretend removable storage devices reside in physical memory.
Not per se. We could want to support removable memory modules (hot swap RAM - now that would be fun :-)
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