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Android source available

Android source available

Posted Oct 22, 2008 13:18 UTC (Wed) by busterb (subscriber, #560)
In reply to: Android source available by johill
Parent article: Android source available

This code is useful in the following ways:

1. Now we know where the eeprom is in the memory map of a G1 phone, its size and as well at
least one of its elements.

2. I've know a few embedded developers who try to write an IOCTL-driven character device to
access the most trivial one-off hardware. Here, we can see the Android developers are at least
pragmatic about embedded development. Maybe some embedded developer will finally slap his
head and say 'of course - why was I going to all that trouble with /dev/eeprom when /dev/mem
was just as useful'

3. This code obviously has to run as root - somebody can audit the code now for security
problems.


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