> years back I modified the library so that it could use the cmos nvram. > no more disk. We used this when Andrey > put plan 9 in FLASH. > > It was nice to not have any spinning media for nvram. > > It gets a little tricky because cmos is not sane in where you can > store bits, but it's doable.
i don't believe this is safe for an arbitrary (rtc device, bios vendor). i may have missed something, since some of the bios in question are obsolete. http://bochs.sourceforge.net/techspec/CMOS-reference.txt - erik
