Re: Re (6): installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.

["Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl%pix.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:40:55PM -0500, Dan Oglesby wrote:
> Hrm...  I didn't look that far into the procedure, so I don't doubt
> you at all.  I know I've done firmware updates from command line before
> under Solaris, but they were most likely for Ultra class machines.
>
> I'll have to take inventory of what I have, then see what works with
> NetBSD as-is.

The SPARC machines up to the Ultra machines used EPROMs for the firmware/boot
code.

The Ultrasparc based machines were the first that had the firmware/boot
code in flash.

Sun used to distribute stand-alone flash update environments that
could be netbooted onto a Ultra1 or Ultra2 and could update the flash.
I think the for Netra-T1 line, they had a special kernel that you
booted from a Solaris environment, but they never packaged a standalone
bootable for those machines (at least for the Netra-T1 105).

-Kurt