Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:28:00 -0700 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.include.dist src/include Makefile src/share/man/man4/man4.powerpc Makefile powermac_nvram.4 src/sys/dev/powermac_nvram powermac_nvram.c powermac_nvramvar.h src/sys/modules Makefile src/sys/modules/powermac_nvram Makefile ... Message-ID: <44D642C0.3090906@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060806155229.S65022@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <200608012219.k71MJ19N054822@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060806155229.S65022@ury.york.ac.uk>
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Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> sobomax 2006-08-01 22:19:01 UTC >> >> Modified files: >> etc/mtree BSD.include.dist >> include Makefile >> sys/modules Makefile >> usr.sbin Makefile >> sys/conf files.powerpc >> sys/powerpc/conf GENERIC >> Added files: >> share/man/man4/man4.powerpc powermac_nvram.4 Makefile >> sys/dev/powermac_nvram powermac_nvram.c powermac_nvramvar.h >> sys/modules/powermac_nvram Makefile >> usr.sbin/nvram Makefile nvram.8 nvram.c >> Log: >> Add device to access and modify Open Firmware NVRAM settings in >> PowerPC-based Apple's machines and small utility to do it from >> userland modelled after the similar utility in Darwin/OSX. > > Hmm, we already have eeprom(8) on sparc64 to modify the OpenFirmware > NVRAM settings on that platform. Is there no way that can be extended, > rather than providing a different userland application to do it on each > platform? Yes, I've looked into it, but the way it works is completely different. Therefore, there is no much sense in integrating it into the single application. -Maxim
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