Re: sili(4) on Sparc64 (Blade 100)

On Tuesday 06 July 2010 09:14:27 Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 01:41:22PM +0100, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> > On 06/07/2010 13:36, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> > >Yes, but if you want to be able to boot from it, you need a card with
> > >an OpenFirmware firmware (not a PC BIOS) on it. Otherswise it won't show
> > >up in openfirmware.
> >
> > Isn't this a feasible work around?
> > http://netbsd.org/ports/sparc64/faq.html#pci-cards
>
> My understanding is that this will work with cards that would attach
> as pciide(4).

If anything I think IDE controllers would work with this hack, but not
necessarily SATA controllers.

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