Subject: Re: How to use /dev/openfirm?
To: Michael Wolfson <mw@blobulent.com>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/29/2001 15:50:28
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:17:17PM -0700, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> Maybe the FAQ if I had some idea of what one does with the openfirm device.
> What is it good for?  Can one query/change settings like the sparc's nvram
> command?

That's what I've presumed since I saw it crop up in the GENERIC
config file, but I haven't touched it at all.

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/syssrc/sys/arch/macppc/conf/GENERIC
sez:

Revision 1.84 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Tue Nov 14 22:33:24 2000 UTC (8 months, 1 week ago) by matt 
Branch: MAIN 
Changes since 1.83: +12 -2 lines
Diff to previous 1.83 (colored) 

Add rnd & openfirm to POWERMAC
Add openfirm and commmented-out firewire stuff to GENERIC

So, matt, how do we use this? :^>

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