Subject: Re: write into OF tree like nvsetenv

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:08:36 +0100

On Mon, Jan 10, Ethan Benson wrote:

> 
> On 9/1/2000 Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> >
> >I want exactly this automatic. This works fine on the current IDE Macs,
> >but with a B&W Scsi Mac a "typical" User has lost.
> >The path on my Mac is something like
> >
> >/pci/pci-bridge/ADPT,2940U2B/@6:7,blah
> >
> >Too complex.
> 
> agreed, OF device paths are gross ;)
...
> in short we have 2 problems right now: 1) we cannot write to OF nvram 
> from linux at the moment and 2) we cannot figure out WHAT to write to 
> it...

We will change this, at least the last. Who solve the first problem? :)

Gruss Olaf

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