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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 16:08:12 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 16:08:12 -0400 |
| commit | b9cde963555b6519c5dbd34a39dee3418f593437 (patch) | |
| tree | 453accad3c3286e3416d4160de4a87223aff684c /static/freebsd/man4/nvram.4 | |
| parent | 5cb84ec742fd33f78c8022863fadaa8d0d93e176 (diff) | |
feat: Added FreeBSD man pages
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diff --git a/static/freebsd/man4/nvram.4 b/static/freebsd/man4/nvram.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1ff2d078 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/freebsd/man4/nvram.4 @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +.\" +.\"Copyright (c) 2010 iXsystems, Inc. +.\"All rights reserved. +.\" written by: Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> +.\" +.\"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\"modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\"are met: +.\"1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\"2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\"THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\"ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\"IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\"ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\"FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\"DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\"OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\"HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\"LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\"OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\"SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd February 8, 2010 +.Dt NVRAM 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm nvram +.Nd "non-volatile RAM" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following line in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device nvram" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +nvram_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides access to BIOS configuration NVRAM on i386 and amd64 +systems. +.Pp +PC motherboard uses a small non-volatile memory to store BIOS settings +which is usually part of its clock chip and sometimes referred as +.Dq CMOS SRAM . +This driver exposes bytes 14 through 128 of the NVRAM, or a total of +114 bytes, at offset zero of the device file +.Pa /dev/nvram . +.Pp +This driver is useful for cloning machines that shares the same hardware +configuration and need same BIOS setting tweaks. +.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES +The BIOS NVRAM's bytes 16 through 31 are checksummed at byte 32. +This driver +.Em does not +take care for these checksums. +.Sh EXAMPLES +Backup existing BIOS NVRAM to +.Pa nvram.bin : +.Pp +.Dl dd if=/dev/nvram of=nvram.bin +.Pp +Restore BIOS NVRAM from +.Pa nvram.bin : +.Pp +.Dl dd if=nvram.bin of=/dev/nvram +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr dd 1 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 6.4 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +device driver was written by +.An Peter Wemm . +This manual page was written by +.An Xin LI . |
