> I doubt that it is an OpenFirmware setting at all, but rather just a PRAM 
> setting affecting power manager. It is just a guess, but my reasonings are:
>
> 1) It isn't in printenv
> 2) It predates OpenFirmware (and PowerPC)
> 3) Most importantly, OpenFirmware isn't running until the machine is turned 
> on...chicken & egg kinda thing there

Good points.

So NetBSD uses NVRAM for various things... gotta find a map...

John