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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Charles Forsyth wrote:
>>yes, but the issue we hit here was that you can't really use all of 
>>CMOS.  The first <xy> bits are used for other things. So you have to 
>>fiddle a bit.
> 
> 
> there are several other environment variables:
> 
>         nvram=file
>         nvrlen=length
>         nvroff=offset
>           This is used to specify an nvram device and optionally the
>           length of the ram and read/write offset to use.  These val-
>           ues are consulted by readnvram (see authsrv(2)). The most
>           common use of the nvram is to hold a secstore(1) password
>           for use by factotum(4).
> 

yes, these did not ever work terrifically well for me IIRC. I ended up 
just changing the driver ...

ron