From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:09:59 -0700 Message-ID: <13426df10907281109p578616dw36991e3a2ddcf770@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] nvram Topicbox-Message-UUID: 30490b16-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg 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