Re: /dev/nvram on my Celebris

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 21:38:12 -0500


In message <98Nov24.104207gmt.66307@gateway.ukaea.org.uk>, Neil Conway
writes:
+-----
| In view of the way the documentation reads, I'm amazed that this hasn't
| happened to more people (maybe it has and they're too embarrassed to
| speak up :-)).
|
| It really does read like there's a small bit of the nvram that you can
| use for whatever you want...
+--->8

Usually, there is in 486+ machines' NVRAM. But /dev/nvram maps *all* of the
NVRAM, not just the small part that's available for applications to use.
You have to know where that available part lives in the NVRAM and how large
it is, then seek to that position and write your data.

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brandon s. allbery	[os/2][linux][solaris][japh]	 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
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