Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:11:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, mjacob@feral.com, "Justin C. Walker" <justin@apple.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System unique identifier..... Message-ID: <199906260011.RAA00865@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:47:05 PDT." <199906252247.PAA03089@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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> On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:55:03 -0600 > Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> wrote: > > > Are there enough bytes available in the BIOS NVRAM? That would do > > nicely as a place to store it. > > If you want this to be widely adoped across the free OS community > (hell, even if you want both of FreeBSD's platforms to support it), > you'd better come up with a less PC-centric place of storing this > information. The loader will, at some stage in the future, grow a persistent data store in which items like this can be saved. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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