Linus et al,

Attached is a patch for the nvram driver.  I've submitted it before, and
Alan OK'ed it, but it didn't wind up in 2.4.7 or 2.4.8.

This patch does 4 main things:
1) Add generic support for paged nvrams, and supporting ioctls
2) Add a 'Magic' page for system-specific NVRAM-like things
3) Add support for NatSemi PC[89]7317 paged nvram
4) Add support for Cobalt's magic page

It also does some re-formatting of things that looked awful with tabstops >
2.

We've been using this patch for months.  Please apply it to the next 2.4.x
kernel, or let me know if you have problems with it.  It is against 2.4.8
and should patch cleanly (just a bit of fuzz).

thanks
Tim
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Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
thockin@sun.com