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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:24:16 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] nvram
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> years back I modified the library so that it could use the cmos nvram.
> no more disk. We used this when Andrey
> put plan 9 in FLASH.
>
> It was nice to not have any spinning media for nvram.
>
> It gets a little tricky because cmos is not sane in where you can
> store bits, but it's doable.

i don't believe this is safe for an arbitrary (rtc device, bios vendor).
i may have missed something, since some of the bios in question
are obsolete.

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/techspec/CMOS-reference.txt

- erik