nvram man page on OpenBSD

nvram man page on OpenBSD

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NVRAM(4)	      OpenBSD Programmer's Manual (i386)	      NVRAM(4)

NAME
     nvram - driver for reading PC NVRAM contents

SYNOPSIS
     pseudo-device nvram 1

DESCRIPTION
     The nvram device provides read-only access to the non-volatile memory
     contained in the MC146818 real-time clock.

     This data is provided as a seekable character device, /dev/nvram.
     Checksums of the NVRAM contents are calculated over bytes 2 to 31 and
     stored in byte 32.	 A valid checksum is required for the driver to
     initialize.

FILES
     /dev/nvram

HISTORY
     nvram support was originally included in OpenBSD 3.7.

OpenBSD 4.9			 May 31, 2007			   OpenBSD 4.9

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