From: Tom Linden (tom@kednos.com)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 10:02:35 EST
Not sure how to summarize this since I may have been a bit vague in
my question. What I was hoping to learn was how consvar worked so
that I might try to write the same thing for VMS. But as several
pointed out it is rather platform specific, in some ways. However,
what makes it plausible is that a lot remains constant in SRM.
These system routines do appear to be the mechanism to access/modify
SRM, as may be indicated by running strings on the executable as suggested
by Alan Rollow.
Looking in /usr/sys/include/arch/alpha/prom.h there is a further indication
of SRM and system specific variable (thanks to Alan Davis)
Thanks also to To Blinn.
>Looking at consvar, it appears that it uses these system calls.
>
>I was looking for the includes files were the actions were defined
>such as, auto_action, bootdef_dev, and so on, but couldn't find them.
>
>Are they perhaps hard coded?
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