Enable promiscous /dev/mem in ubuntu server

[Robie Basak]

Hi Ratheesh,

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 02:30:13PM +0530, ratheesh kannoth wrote:
> I could see in  /boot/config-3.11.0-12-generic  file  that
> CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y.
> 
> 1) Is there any way to get around ?
> 

I'm not sure. If you don't get an answer here, try the Ubuntu kernel
team mailing list or IRC channel [1].

> 2) if only kernel recompilation is the option, is it same as desktop
> ubuntu kernel compilation  ?  this wiki
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/BuildYourOwnKernel  talks about some.

The server kernel is now -generic and the same as the desktop kernel.
Just make sure you build the -generic kernel using the binary-generic
target as specified in those instructions.

Robie

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam#Communications
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