RE: PATCH: /dev/nvram cleanups.

Jones D (djones2@glam.ac.uk)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 18:04:01 +0100


> > Rather than go by the manufacturer, woudln't you be better
> off identifying
> > the BIOS ? (as that is what is primarily using the nvram).
>
> I think we all would be better off not wasting our time with this...

I personally have no desire to write a program to interpret these
extended bytes, but should someone have that desire, the need to
extend the amount of bytes exported by /dev/nvram is there.
I see no reason why the limit shouldn't be increased. Unless there
is some flaky nvram that does strange things when you try to read
locations that it doesn't have, but I know of no such device.

btw, Is there a current maintainer of the nvram driver?

regards,

d.

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