166 lines
5.2 KiB
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166 lines
5.2 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: openprom.4,v 1.6 2002/02/13 08:18:03 ross Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This software was developed by the Computer Systems Engineering group
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.\" at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under DARPA contract BG 91-66 and
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.\" contributed to Berkeley.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" from: @(#)openprom.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 5, 1993
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.Dt OPENPROM 4 sparc
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm openprom
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.Nd Sun OPENPROM and EEPROM interface
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include \*[Lt]machine/openpromio.h\*[Gt]
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The file
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.Nm /dev/openprom
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is an interface to the SPARC OPENPROM,
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including the EEPROM area.
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This interface is highly stylized;
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ioctls are used for all operations.
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These ioctls refer to
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.Dq nodes ,
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which are simply
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.Dq magic
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integer values describing data areas.
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Occasionally the number 0 may be used or returned instead,
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as described below.
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A special distinguished
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.Dq options
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node holds the EEPROM settings.
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.Pp
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The calls that take and/or return a node
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use a pointer to an
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.Li int
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variable for this purpose;
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others use a pointer to an
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.Li struct opiocdesc
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descriptor,
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which contains a node and two counted strings.
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The first string comprises the fields
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.Li op_namelen
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(an
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.Li int )
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and
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.Li op_name
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(a
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.Li "char *" ) ,
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giving the name of a field.
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The second string comprises the fields
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.Li op_buflen
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and
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.Li op_buf ,
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used analogously.
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These two counted strings work in a
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.Dq value-result
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fashion.
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At entry to the ioctl,
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the counts are expected to reflect the buffer size;
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on return,
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the counts are updated to reflect the buffer contents.
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.Pp
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The following ioctls are supported:
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.Bl -tag -width OPIOCGETOPTNODE
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.It Dv OPIOCGETOPTNODE
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Takes nothing, and fills in the options node number.
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.It OPIOCGETNEXT
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Takes a node number and returns the number of the following node.
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The node following the last node is number 0;
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the node following number 0 is the first node.
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.It Dv OPIOCGETCHILD
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Takes a node number and returns the number of the first
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.Dq child
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of that node.
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This child may have siblings; these can be discovered by using
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.Dv OPIOCGETNEXT .
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.It Dv OPIOCGET
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Fills in the value of the named property for the given node.
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If no such property is associated with that node,
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the value length is set to -1.
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If the named property exists but has no value,
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the value length is set to 0.
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.It Dv OPIOCSET
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Writes the given value under the given name.
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The OPENPROM may refuse this operation;
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in this case
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.Dv EINVAL
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is returned.
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.It Dv OPIOCNEXTPROP
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Finds the property whose name follows the given name
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in OPENPROM internal order.
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The resulting name is returned in the value field.
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If the named property is the last, the
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.Dq next
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name is the empty string.
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As with
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.Dv OPIOCGETNEXT ,
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the next name after the empty string is the first name.
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Pa /dev/openprom
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.Sh ERRORS
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The following may result in rejection of an operation:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The given node number
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is not zero
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and does not correspond to any valid node,
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or is zero where zero is not allowed.
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.It Bq Er EBADF
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The requested operation requires permissions not specified at the call to
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.Fn open .
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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The given name or value field
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exceeds the maximum allowed length (8191 bytes).
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ioctl 2
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.Pp
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.Pa http://playground.sun.com/1275/
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.Sh BUGS
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Due to limitations within the
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.Nm
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itself, these functions run at elevated priority
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and may adversely affect system performance.
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.Pp
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The
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.Tn Sun
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.Nm
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is what became the Open Firmware
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.Pq Tn IEEE 1275
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standard for processor and system independent boot firmware.
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