Re: [android-developers] Android permission to open("/dev/mem",...)

Hi, this probably belongs on android-porting. That said, "application access to hardware registers" is pretty much a no, never, not on your life. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Manu wrote: > I am designing an application on Android that needs to access hardware > registers from user space. The

[android-developers] Android permission to open("/dev/mem",...)

I am designing an application on Android that needs to access hardware registers from user space. The application is integrated to external/ skia. First, I have to determine the virtual address of my hardware by doing a device open("/dev/mem", O_RDWR|O_SYNC) followed by a mmap(...) Linux-2.6.29-di