[ltp] Storing data in /dev/nvram
Ernst Herzberg
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:20:03 +0200
On Monday 31 July 2006 14:14, Onno Benschop wrote:
>
> I have a need to store two bytes of data between reboots. The machine is
> built into a car and the hard-disk is read-only. I don't want to
> particularly setup my machine to write to the hard-disk, and if I could
> make that the head never writes, I would.
>
> I hit on the idea of storing data in CMOS somewhere, don't really care
> where, as long as I can store two bytes every five minutes or so, and
> read them when the machine boots.
Buy the cheapest USB-Mem-Stick you can get.
[Earny]