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Date:      Sun, 23 May 2004 20:43:45 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/eeprom Makefile eeprom.8 eeprom.c ofw_options.c ofw_options.h
Message-ID:  <xzp3c5rf0gu.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200405221656.i4MGu50k062998@repoman.freebsd.org> (Marius Strobl's message of "Sat, 22 May 2004 09:56:05 -0700 (PDT)")
References:  <200405221656.i4MGu50k062998@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Marius Strobl <marius@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   The idea of eeprom(8) is that handlers can be written to add support
>   for any firmware that stores such configuration in EEPROM or NVRAM;
>   sort of e.g. eeprom(1M) on Solaris/x86 is used to turn PAE-support
>   on and off (stored in a file then, not hardware). In FreeBSD, a
>   candidate for this would be a handler for the EFI boot environment
>   for FreeBSD/ia64.

Would it make sense to teach eeprom(8) how to handle /boot/loader.conf?

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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