Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:42:47 +0000 | From | Neil Conway <> | Subject | Re: /dev/nvram on my Celebris |
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ketil@ii.uib.no wrote: > > Colin Plumb <colin@nyx.net> writes: > > > It absolutely *is* intended. The purpose of it is to read and possibly > > modify the BIOS settings in NVRAM. If you do stupid things while root > > (it *is* root-writeable-only, right?), Linux is not going to try to > > save you. > > Right. I missed the "with some utility" part of the Configure.help, but > got the "data that is not lost at power-off" part. Thus I was under the > impression that the memory could be used for non-volatile storage.
In view of the way the documentation reads, I'm amazed that this hasn't happened to more people (maybe it has and they're too embarrassed to speak up :-)).
It really does read like there's a small bit of the nvram that you can use for whatever you want...
Hence: let's change Configure.help to something a little more sensible.
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