Subject: Re: Ross "hyperSPARC Module Installation Guide"
To: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.demon.co.uk>
From: Len Rose <len@netsys.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/27/2003 06:18:38
Before they died, I did a mirror of their site and put everything
I could get here: http://www.netsys.com/cgi-bin/display_article.cgi?879


On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:13:21AM +0000, Julian Coleman wrote:
> Early spring cleaning my docs disk, I came across the "hyperSPARC Module
> Installation Guide".  Most of it just tell me how to take machines apart
> and put them back together but one of the appendices mentions problems with
> modules slower than 90Mhz and gives a few PROM commands to work round this
> before installing the patch.
> 
> The patch is to ross625_va_int_asm() for machines running SunOS 4.1.4.
> 
> The PROM commands are :
> 
>   ok reset
>   ok ross625
>   ok ibuf-off
>   ok 1 switch-cpu
>   ok ibuff-off
>   ok 0 switch-cpu
> 
> J
> 
> 
> -- 
>                     My other computer also runs NetBSD
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