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Re: SPARC V9 boot process




> On Oct 31, 2025, at 7:14 AM, Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 14:47:57 +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 01:45:41PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
>>> I don't have any SPARC V8 machines to test
>> 
>> v8 is known to work (and I bet v7 works too, but I don't have any v7 machines
>> left in working condition).
> 
> IIRC, SS1 has a really old prom, I'm not even sure it's OBP2 (but then
> it's been decades...)

I am almost certain that the SS1 uses the old-world ROM like the older Sun4 VME machines.

But not certain certain.  Just almost.  I haven’t seen a SS1 IRL in many years.

-- thorpej



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