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 148580 2005-07-31 03:30:48Z keramida $
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 CAVEATS
210Due to limitations within
211.Tn Open Firmware
212itself,
213these functions run at elevated priority and may adversely affect system
214performance.
215.Pp
216The
217.Nm
218interface exists entirely for compatibility with software like X11,
219and only the features that are actually needed for that are implemented.
220The interface sucks too much to actually use,
221new code should use the
222.Xr openfirm 4
223interface instead.
224.Sh SEE ALSO
225.Xr ioctl 2 ,
226.Xr openfirm 4 ,
227.Xr eeprom 8 ,
228.Xr ofwdump 8
229.Sh HISTORY
230The first
231.Fx
232version to include the
233.Nm
234interface was
235.Fx 5.0 .
236.Sh AUTHORS
237The
238.Nm
239interface was written by
240.An "Jake Burkholder" Aq jake@FreeBSD.org .
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 148580 2005-07-31 03:30:48Z keramida $
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 CAVEATS
210Due to limitations within
211.Tn Open Firmware
212itself,
213these functions run at elevated priority and may adversely affect system
214performance.
215.Pp
216The
217.Nm
218interface exists entirely for compatibility with software like X11,
219and only the features that are actually needed for that are implemented.
220The interface sucks too much to actually use,
221new code should use the
222.Xr openfirm 4
223interface instead.
224.Sh SEE ALSO
225.Xr ioctl 2 ,
226.Xr openfirm 4 ,
227.Xr eeprom 8 ,
228.Xr ofwdump 8
229.Sh HISTORY
230The first
231.Fx
232version to include the
233.Nm
234interface was
235.Fx 5.0 .
236.Sh AUTHORS
237The
238.Nm
239interface was written by
240.An "Jake Burkholder" Aq jake@FreeBSD.org .