From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:48:00 -0700 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe - nvram In-Reply-To: <286ea827434f4d0db748bfacf74715d9@collyer.net> Message-ID: References: <286ea827434f4d0db748bfacf74715d9@collyer.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0f6ae7a4-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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