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From: jon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
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Subject: Re: Summary: eeprom command on Sparcs
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The message

eeprom: software area checksum wrong 

comes from the fact the checksum _is_ wrong, probably because memory size
has changed and the eeprom not updated correctly. eeprom -c fixes this.

I suspect the reason eeprom doesn't work on most your machines is because
you never put it in the kernal!  from the GENERIC sun4c config file:

#
# The "open EEPROM" pseudo-device is required to support the
# eeprom command.
#
pseudo-device   openeepr        # onboard configuration NVRAM

Jon