* [9fans] Whither nvram?
@ 2003-01-09 5:08 Dan Cross
2003-01-09 5:10 ` Russ Cox
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From: Dan Cross @ 2003-01-09 5:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
I was setting up a CPU/auth server on a recycled VALinux server the
other day (hooray!) and ran into an annoying problem with reading
nvram contents. Basically, this particular server had disk bays
that took SCA SCSI drives, and there was literally no way to have
an sd00; the smallest SCSI ID one could use was sd01. So, readnvram()
/sys/src/libauthsrv/readnvram.c never found my nvram sector. That
was highly annoying, and I fixed it by adding the appropriate lines
to nvtab to look at sd01 in addition to sd00 and sdC0. Still, that
seemed kind of ugly and it struck me that it would be a better
solution for readnvram() to honor an ``nvr'' environment variable
if such a thing existed. That way, the location of the nvram parition
could be set in plan9.ini. Does that seem like a reasonable change
to other people? If not, it'd be nice to see the sd01 entries go into
nvtab.
- Dan C.
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* Re: [9fans] Whither nvram?
2003-01-09 5:08 [9fans] Whither nvram? Dan Cross
@ 2003-01-09 5:10 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-09 14:09 ` Ronald G. Minnich
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From: Russ Cox @ 2003-01-09 5:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
I like that suggestion. Then I could get rid
of the cputype=debug hack.
Russ
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* Re: [9fans] Whither nvram?
2003-01-09 5:10 ` Russ Cox
@ 2003-01-09 14:09 ` Ronald G. Minnich
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From: Ronald G. Minnich @ 2003-01-09 14:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Russ Cox wrote:
> I like that suggestion. Then I could get rid
> of the cputype=debug hack.
Out here andrey did a set up so that our linuxbios nodes had nvram in
cmos; it really was nvram. The types of nvram are becoming more varied. An
environment variable to describe nvram would be very useful.
ron
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