From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 25 14:59:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064F114A09 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:59:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA28251; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:59:43 -0700 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:58:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... In-Reply-To: <3773FAB7.F44A79C1@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > 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. Whose BIOS NVRAM? This is not entirely architecturally even handed though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message