Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of tpb

[Mathieu Roy]

According to my knowledge, nvram is a free part of the kernel linux. 
Take a look at the source of Linux 2.4.x

Le ven 21 jun 2002 à 16h33, Jaime E . Villate a écrit :
> Hi,
> I'm sorry for my ignorance, but what's the NVRAM device? I could not
> find
> anything like that in my kernel sources. Is there a free driver for
> it? Where
> can I check its license?  Please register your project again with a
> more
> detailed description.
>
> Regards,
> Jaime
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 03:23:00AM -0400, address@hidden
> wrote:
> >
> > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> > This mail was sent to address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> >
> >
> > Markus Braun <address@hidden> described the package as
> follows:
> > License: gpl
> > Other License:
> > Package: tpb
> > System name: tpb
> > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> >
> > Description:
> > The tpb project provides a little program, to use the ThinkPad
> button on IBM ThinkPad(tm) Computers. It uses the NVRAM device of the
> linux kernel to find out if the button was pressed.
> >
> > Other Software Required:
> > Linux Kernel with NVRAM device enabled.
>
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