Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Jun 1998 19:12:46 +0300 | From | Meelis Roos <> | Subject | Re: Writing to CMOS RAM |
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tzdcu> 2) I'm not sure how to read and set the checksum so I just don't do it tzdcu> which obviously gives errros on reboot or waking from hiberbate. tzdcu> The CMOS RAM I am wrting to starts at the bytes which are offset tzdcu> 50 above the RTC RAM ie. where nvram.c stops.
If the checksum algorithm is unified (is it?), maybe we should have an automatic checksum calculating in nvram driver (maybe some ioctl). It could (maybe even automatically) update the checksum if a byte is changed that is not in the time area and is not the checksum itself.
Optinions?
-- Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
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