From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nvram
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:09:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10907281109p578616dw36991e3a2ddcf770@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0907281154100.17462@tascal.biz>
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg<lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> Okay, it's authsrv(2) that describes the nvram search sequence. And for
> whatever reason I had it in my head that these days it was possible to grab
> the nvram across the wire, which in hindsight makes no sense whatsoever. And
> now that I think about it, my last (2ed) 'diskless' CPU server had a floppy
> drive in it for this very reason ...
>
> Doncha just love PC hardware?
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.
ron
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-28 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-28 17:58 Lyndon Nerenberg
2009-07-28 18:08 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-28 18:37 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-29 13:43 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-29 13:48 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-30 16:05 ` sqweek
2009-07-30 16:08 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-30 16:22 ` sqweek
2009-07-30 17:58 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-30 18:12 ` Steve Simon
2009-07-30 18:45 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-28 21:59 ` Adriano Verardo
2009-07-28 18:09 ` ron minnich [this message]
2009-07-28 19:24 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-28 22:38 ` ron minnich
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-12 14:48 Sergey Reva
2005-05-12 15:10 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-05-12 16:47 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-05-12 23:52 ` Dan Cross
2005-04-03 12:50 Sergey Reva
2005-04-03 13:39 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-03 14:44 ` Sergey Reva
2005-04-03 15:07 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-04 10:03 ` C H Forsyth
2005-04-03 16:47 ` Sergey Reva
2003-08-26 21:17 [9fans] NVRAM Kenji Arisawa
2003-08-26 22:22 ` zfolkerts
2003-08-26 22:37 ` Kenji Arisawa
2003-08-26 22:49 ` ron minnich
2003-08-26 23:06 ` Kenji Arisawa
2000-09-06 23:21 [9fans] nvram Russ Cox
2000-09-06 23:33 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 23:00 jmk
2000-09-06 23:05 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 13:24 [9fans] Re: Kernighan interview (w/ Plan 9 mention) forsyth
2000-09-06 22:47 ` [9fans] nvram Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 22:52 ` Boyd Roberts
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