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Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:03:27 -0700
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From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] nvram on a diskless cpu server
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It seems Andrey did this some time ago as well:
http://mirtchovski.com/lanlp9/flash/index.html

Are there any patches in the repo that have survived
this? I know that for SPARC computers #r/nvram is the
place to look. Perhaps the story on x86 machines is
a bit more difficult?


Thanks,
ak

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:55 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some time ago I modified the rtc driver so we could use '#r/nvram'
> (oh, gosh, this was almost 10 years ago but ...) so that we could use
> the CMOS to store this stuff. Maybe it's time for another look.
>
> ron
>
>