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From: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
To: "Vincent Stehlé" <vincent.stehle@stepmind.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: PROM variables
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:27:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030313102718.GA5032@simek> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E7057A6.60007@stepmind.com>

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:04:22AM +0100, Vincent Stehlé wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a way to get/set PROM variables under Linux ?

no.

> I have an indigo2 with no display, and setting the variables without 
> reverting to the monitor through the serial line would be very handy.
> 
> As I doubt there is currently a solution, I was thinking about 
> implementing this as a /proc subdir. What do you think ?

we discussed this issue on #irc yesterday. it seems that conclusion was
implement it as ioctl on some /dev/prom (?).

	ladis

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-13 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-13 10:04 PROM variables Vincent Stehlé
2003-03-13 10:17 ` Juan Quintela
2003-03-13 10:26 ` Guido Guenther
2003-03-13 11:33   ` Ladislav Michl
2003-03-13 11:42     ` Juan Quintela
2003-03-13 11:42     ` Juan Quintela
2003-03-13 16:08   ` Vincent Stehlé
2003-03-13 10:27 ` Ladislav Michl [this message]

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