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At 8:43 PM +0200 5/23/04, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>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). ...
>
>Would it make sense to teach eeprom(8) how to handle
>/boot/loader.conf?

"Handle", in what sense?  How does /boot/loader.conf have any
connection to anything PROM-ish?

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