Re: A little more help for a new sparc user

Miod Vallat <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
> Well I got the install up and running an have my netra X1 running openBSD.
> 
> In the install.sparc64 file in mentions applying the latest firmware patch
> for openbsd to run.

But only if OpenBSD doesn't boot and work correctly. This part of the
installation notes was written with Ultra 1 in mind, where the earliest
systems would not be able to run a 64 bit kernel correctly without a
firmware upgrade.

On modern systems (anything using UltraSPARC-II or better processors,
really) there should be no reason to upgrade your current firmware.

Miod
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