From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 25 14:57:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 649DD14A09 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:57:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id OAA12277; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:55:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA03918; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:55:11 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA03358; Fri, 25 Jun 99 14:55:04 PDT Message-Id: <3773FAB7.F44A79C1@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:55:03 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: "Justin C. Walker" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I want it to persist until it's changed. Change doesn't mean a reboot. > > The Linux folks (mostly Ted) helped me clarify some thinking about this so > that the basic original source of the seeded WWN doesn't have to come from > first principles in hardware that can be read prior to mounting root. But > where the linux folks aren't really hipped on is a good architecturally > clean place to store the seed. It'd be nice if we thought of this for > FreeBSD. Are there enough bytes available in the BIOS NVRAM? That would do nicely as a place to store it. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message