Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Aurélien GÉRÔME <ag@roxor.cx>
* Package name : powerpc-ibm-utils
Version : 1.0.2
Upstream Authors: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Todd Inglett <tinglett@us.ibm.com>
Michael Strosaker <strosake@austin.ibm.com>
* URL : http://powerpc-utils.ozlabs.org/
Licence : IBM Common Public License
Programming Lang: C, Perl, Bash
Description : Utilities for maintenance of IBM PowerPC platforms
The powerpc-ibm-utils package provides the utilities listed below
which are intended for the maintenance of PowerPC platforms. Further
documentation for each of the utilities is available from their
respective man pages.
* nvram - NVRAM access utility
A utility to view and format the contents of the system's
non-volatile RAM, which contains configuration variables for Open
Firmware and the system's Service Processor (if any), as well as
error records and Vital Product Data (VPD).
* bootlist - boot configuration utility
A script to view and set the list of devices with which the system
will attempt to boot. Both the "normal" and "service" mode lists
can be manipulated.
* ofpathname - translate logical device names to OF names
Used by bootlist to convert between Linux logical device names and
Open Firmware names.
* snap - system configuration snapshot
A script to gather significant system configuration information. The
script creates snap.tar.gz in the working directory which can be
used for problem determination.
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