Subject: Re: Install guides (was Re: HI JASON, WELCOME TO OPEN FIRMWARE!)
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/16/2005 12:33:59
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Hello,

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:01:29AM -0800, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> > Well, the key thing would be for NetBSD (and in particular sysinst) to 
> > be able to read and write to OF.
> 
> I thought it could - at least, there is a OF_read and OF_write in bootxx.c..
bootxx does in fact modify load-base and/or real-base. But I guess Michael was talking about a userland tool running under NetBSD to modify OF settings, like eeprom does on sparc/sparc64.

have fun
Michael

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