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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
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Subject: Re: Summary: eeprom command on Sparcs
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In article <1349@brchh104.bnr.ca> jon@robots.oxford.ac.uk (Jon Tombs) writes:
>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

Unfortunately, this doesn't fix eeprom(8S) on non-4c architectures.

I have a 4/470 whose eeprom(8S)
	* claims the checksum is wrong
	* will print the eeprom contents when given "-i"
	* fails to do anything when given "-c", with or without "-i".
	* will not allow changing eeprom contents, with or without
	  "-c" and/or "-i"

Any ideas on this one?

Bob Weissman
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