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On 5/1/08, Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm trying to boot openbios on PPC target (for the moment I'm only able to
> load yaboot).

Great! Which machine are you using? OpenBIOS has some support for
things called briq, mol and pearpc, are any of those useful?

>  This patch is a cleanup of PMAC nvram.
>
>  It stores nvram in a file and create valid partitions.

In no other machine nvram is loaded from a file. On Sparc most
configuration needs can be addressed by using -prom-env switch.