On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 11:20:18PM -0600, David G. Andersen wrote:
> 
>   I decided to take our shark cluster up to the 1.4-ALPHA snapshot
> recently, and found that 1.4 won't netboot on dnards with the August
> 1997 firmware, but will netboot with anything past February 1998.  Is
> this a known bug (e.g., "Just go upgrade the bloody firmware"), or is
> it something someone feels like fixing?  I'm not all that familiar
> with the CS89x0 driver, or I'd peek in to it a bit more deeply.
> 
>   My most likely guess is that the old firmware is probably leaving
> the device in some weird state, but that's a guess.  The patched
> NetBSD 1.3.1 from DEC worked like a charm on sharks with this release
> of the firmware, so it seems like a driver issue.

"Just go upgrade the bloody firmware" has been the slogan for any SHARK kernel
built out of the NetBSD source repository I can remember.

Regards,
	-is