From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe - nvram
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:48:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411300847340.19250@linux.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <286ea827434f4d0db748bfacf74715d9@collyer.net>
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> I couldn't find any free NVRAM in a stock PC when I last looked. The
> PC started out short of resources (e.g., 8 then 15 IRQs) and some of
> those limitations are still with us. Apparently nobody in a position
> to fix it (e.g., Microsoft and Intel) thinks that having a chunk of
> unallocated NVRAM would be useful enough to make it standard.
"Wait a minnit" I thought. Then I realized -- I only used the NVRAM on
linuxbios machines. Never mind. I'm sure the PC bios uses it all ...
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-30 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-28 17:07 Steve Simon
2004-11-29 11:42 ` Matthias Teege
2004-11-29 12:05 ` geoff
2004-11-29 15:11 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-29 18:13 ` Steve Simon
2004-11-29 18:49 ` Sergey Reva
2004-11-30 7:58 ` geoff
2004-11-30 15:48 ` Ronald G. Minnich [this message]
2004-11-30 16:28 ` Jason Gurtz
2004-11-30 16:36 ` Nigel Roles
2004-11-30 16:46 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 18:30 ` Jack Johnson
2004-11-30 19:44 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 19:54 ` rog
2004-11-30 19:51 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 21:57 ` Jack Johnson
2004-11-30 2:08 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-11-30 9:14 ` [9fans] usb storage (was Re: pxe - nvram) Richard Miller
2004-12-01 15:33 ` [9fans] pxe - nvram Sergey Reva
2004-12-01 16:03 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-01 18:18 ` Sergey Reva
2004-12-01 18:30 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-01 18:42 ` Jack Johnson
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