From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:28:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ftp.ckdenergo.cz ([IPv6:::ffff:80.95.97.155]:58033 "EHLO simek") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:28:23 +0000 Received: from ladis by simek with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18tPvs-0001JV-00; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:27:28 +0100 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:27:18 +0100 To: Vincent =?iso-8859-2?Q?Stehl=E9?= Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: PROM variables Message-ID: <20030313102718.GA5032@simek> References: <3E7057A6.60007@stepmind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3E7057A6.60007@stepmind.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Ladislav Michl Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 1721 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ladis@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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