Re: A little more help for a new sparc user
Mark Kettenis <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.openbsd.sparc |
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> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:26:31 +0000 > From: Miod Vallat <[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. Except on UltraSPARC-T2 systems where early firmware releases have a hypervisor bug that prevents OpenBSD from booting.