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.