1.\"-
2.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
3.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
4.\"
5.\" This software was developed by the Computer Systems Engineering group
6.\" at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under DARPA contract BG 91-66 and
7.\" contributed to Berkeley.
8.\"
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53.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
54.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
55.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
56.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
57.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
58.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
59.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
60.\"
61.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/man4.sparc64/openprom.4 208027 2010-05-13 12:07:55Z uqs $
62.\"
63.Dd June 18, 2005
64.Dt OPENPROM 4 sparc64
65.Os
66.Sh NAME
67.Nm openprom
68.Nd "OPENPROM interface"
69.Sh SYNOPSIS
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201or the given property name exceeds the maximum allowed length of
202.Dv OPROMMAXPARAM
203bytes.
204.It Bq Er ENOMEM
205The kernel could not allocate memory to copy in data from user-space or to
206retrieve data from the
207.Tn Open Firmware .
208.El
209.Sh SEE ALSO
210.Xr ioctl 2 ,
211.Xr openfirm 4 ,
212.Xr eeprom 8 ,
213.Xr ofwdump 8
214.Sh HISTORY
215The first
216.Fx
217version to include the
218.Nm
219interface was
220.Fx 5.0 .
221.Sh AUTHORS
222The
223.Nm
224interface was written by
225.An "Jake Burkholder" Aq jake@FreeBSD.org .
226.Sh CAVEATS
227Due to limitations within
228.Tn Open Firmware
229itself,
230these functions run at elevated priority and may adversely affect system
231performance.
232.Pp
233The
234.Nm
235interface exists entirely for compatibility with software like X11,
236and only the features that are actually needed for that are implemented.
237The interface sucks too much to actually use,
238new code should use the
239.Xr openfirm 4
240interface instead.
2.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
3.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
4.\"
5.\" This software was developed by the Computer Systems Engineering group
6.\" at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under DARPA contract BG 91-66 and
7.\" contributed to Berkeley.
8.\"
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53.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
54.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
55.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
56.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
57.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
58.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
59.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
60.\"
61.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/man4.sparc64/openprom.4 208027 2010-05-13 12:07:55Z uqs $
62.\"
63.Dd June 18, 2005
64.Dt OPENPROM 4 sparc64
65.Os
66.Sh NAME
67.Nm openprom
68.Nd "OPENPROM interface"
69.Sh SYNOPSIS
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201or the given property name exceeds the maximum allowed length of
202.Dv OPROMMAXPARAM
203bytes.
204.It Bq Er ENOMEM
205The kernel could not allocate memory to copy in data from user-space or to
206retrieve data from the
207.Tn Open Firmware .
208.El
209.Sh SEE ALSO
210.Xr ioctl 2 ,
211.Xr openfirm 4 ,
212.Xr eeprom 8 ,
213.Xr ofwdump 8
214.Sh HISTORY
215The first
216.Fx
217version to include the
218.Nm
219interface was
220.Fx 5.0 .
221.Sh AUTHORS
222The
223.Nm
224interface was written by
225.An "Jake Burkholder" Aq jake@FreeBSD.org .
226.Sh CAVEATS
227Due to limitations within
228.Tn Open Firmware
229itself,
230these functions run at elevated priority and may adversely affect system
231performance.
232.Pp
233The
234.Nm
235interface exists entirely for compatibility with software like X11,
236and only the features that are actually needed for that are implemented.
237The interface sucks too much to actually use,
238new code should use the
239.Xr openfirm 4
240interface instead.