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- Correct the description of the "local-mac-address?" variable. Not all NICs

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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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Marius Strobl 2004-08-15 20:17:29 +00:00
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commit ec0834c166
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@ -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