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authormarius <marius@FreeBSD.org>2004-08-15 20:17:29 +0000
committermarius <marius@FreeBSD.org>2004-08-15 20:17:29 +0000
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- Correct the description of the "local-mac-address?" variable. Not all NICs
use it, only those with FCode. Add references to dc(4), gem(4) and hme(4) for obtaining further information about such devices presently supported by FreeBSD. - Correct the HISTORY section. There was an eeprom(8) utility in 4.4BSD and early versions of FreeBSD 2.x. - Add an AUTHORS section.
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-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/eeprom/eeprom.847
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/eeprom/eeprom.8 b/usr.sbin/eeprom/eeprom.8
index 637e15a..c5da658 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/eeprom/eeprom.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/eeprom/eeprom.8
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\" from: NetBSD: eeprom.8,v 1.11 2003/03/31 01:31:39 perry Exp
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd May 16, 2004
+.Dd August 15, 2004
.Dt EEPROM 8 sparc64
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -254,13 +254,20 @@ Default:
.It Va local-mac-address?
If set to
.Dq Li false ,
-all Ethernet devices will use the system default MAC address.
+all Ethernet devices with FCode will use the system default MAC address.
If set to
.Dq Li true ,
-Ethernet devices which have a unique MAC address will use it rather
-than the system's default MAC address.
+Ethernet devices with FCode that contains an unique MAC address will use it
+rather than the system's default MAC address.
Default:
.Dq Li false .
+.Pp
+Ethernet devices with FCode include those supported by
+.Xr dc 4 ,
+.Xr gem 4
+and
+.Xr hme 4 .
+Please see the respective manual page for further information.
.It Va mfg-mode
Manufacture test mode interpreted by the POST.
Possible values are
@@ -649,11 +656,27 @@ New password:
Retype new password:
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr dc 4 ,
+.Xr gem 4 ,
+.Xr hme 4 ,
.Xr ofwdump 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility first appeared in
+.Bx 4.4 .
+It was adopted from there by
+.Fx 2.0 .
+The
+.Nm
+utility was removed from
+.Fx
+again after
+.Fx 2.1.7
+because the utility was unused at that time.
+The present implementation of the
+.Nm
+utility first appeared in
.Fx 5.3 .
It is inspired by the
.Nx
@@ -661,6 +684,22 @@ It is inspired by the
and SunOS/Solaris
.Xr eeprom 1M
utilities.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+The
+.Nm
+utility uses base code from the
+.Nx
+version written by
+.An "Jason R. Thorpe" .
+The handlers for the Open Firmware
+.Pa /options
+node were written by
+.An "Marius Strobl" Aq marius@FreeBSD.org .
+The code for accessing the Open Firmware device tree is shared with the
+.Xr ofwdump 8
+utility written by
+.An "Thomas Moestl" Aq tmm@FreeBSD.org .
.Sh BUGS
Currently,
.Nm
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