Re: OFW node names

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:11:55 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

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Does any platform known to use yaboot (or grub for that matter) use  
the
preferred encoding of the manufacturer portion of the name property?
How about the "ONNNNN" OUI from the RAC, or the uppercase VWXYZ  
company stock symbol?

Apple sometimes uses AAPL.  Never seen the ONNNNNN thing.

matches the US stock symbol, goodness.

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My view has been limited to the IBM platform.  According to the
examples, this is a recommended practice.  I know IBM uses the
lowercase variant.

Which _is_ allowed, although discouraged.

Ok, but who enforces it?  Vendor polices themselves?  Right. :->  

Thanks!

++doug