The following reply was made to PR port-sparc/37080; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.org.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-sparc/37080: second stage boot loader fails on SparcStation 2
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:56:53 +0000

 >                           after upgrading to version 2.9 the second
 >  stage boot loader works smoothly, and a few other nuisances
 
 That's good news.
  
 >  I don't know whether the NetBSD developers aim at supporting firmware
 >  revisions older than 2.9;
 
 It would be good to support more hardware, but it relies on developer time
 and hardware being both available.  Not supporting 2.2 was probbably a
 side-affect of some other change, rather than a deliberate decision.  It
 should be possible to track down the commit(s) that caused the regression
 and to fix it. 
 
 Thanks,
 
 J
 
 
 -- 
   My other computer also runs NetBSD    /        Sailing at Newbiggin
         http://www.netbsd.org/        /   http://www.newbigginsailingclub.org/