From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 25 15:18:40 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 B496415707 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:18:38 -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 PAA12548; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA04545; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:18:06 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA04627; Fri, 25 Jun 99 15:18:05 PDT Message-Id: <3774001C.F264CDB0@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:18:04 -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: 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. > > Whose BIOS NVRAM? The host system BIOS NVRAM. I thought we were looking for a per-host ID here, right? -- "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