> Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 21:06:21 +0530
> From: Martin Pieuchot <mpieuc...@nolizard.org>
>
> Hi,
>
> "recent" macppc machines, power{mac,book}2.1 and onward, also known as
> "Core99" powermac and after, have an onboard nvram of 8kB (actually 2
> banks of 8kB).
>
> This nvram is used, at least by the Open Firmware, to store its
> variables. The following diff is a driver to access the nvram
> without calling the openfirmware. Its interest may be not that important
> considering that we can already access the nvram through the "options"
> node of the ofw. But here it is, if someone is interested ;)
If this really only provides access to the variables that are already
avilable through eeprom(8) through openprom(4), I don't think we
should add this.
