CMOS RAM allocation and alternate uses

[Jeremy Jackson]

Hi,   It just occurred to me that among other things (random seed), one particularly suited use for the CMOS NVRAM space with LinuxBios would be the /etc/ntp/drift file's contents. This is a small item and being able to use NVRAM for it would eliminate one more dependency on disk.   Also, it would make the RTC self contained, since the CMOS/RTC are almost always the same part on most motherboards. (Well not some 286's maybe)  Cange disks, IP addresses (on NFS root box) or whatever, the clock looses it's correction factor...   Can anyone say without much effort how much of the NVRAM is used by linuxbios, or at least where in CVS the answer might be?   Regards,   Jeremy