From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 25 17:27:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3146D14D3D for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:27:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00865; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:11:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199906260011.RAA00865@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jason Thorpe Cc: Wes Peters , mjacob@feral.com, "Justin C. Walker" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:47:05 PDT." <199906252247.PAA03089@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:11:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:55:03 -0600 > Wes Peters wrote: > > > Are there enough bytes available in the BIOS NVRAM? That would do > > nicely as a place to store it. > > If you want this to be widely adoped across the free OS community > (hell, even if you want both of FreeBSD's platforms to support it), > you'd better come up with a less PC-centric place of storing this > information. The loader will, at some stage in the future, grow a persistent data store in which items like this can be saved. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message