Summary: eeprom command on Sparcs

[Jon Tombs]

The message

eeprom: software area checksum wrong 

comes from the fact the checksum _is_ wrong, probably because memory size
has changed and the eeprom not updated correctly. eeprom -c fixes this.

I suspect the reason eeprom doesn't work on most your machines is because
you never put it in the kernal!  from the GENERIC sun4c config file:

#
# The "open EEPROM" pseudo-device is required to support the
# eeprom command.
#
pseudo-device   openeepr        # onboard configuration NVRAM

Jon