Re: [Fwd: NOTE: Solaris 7 gotcha for some ultras]

casperHOLLAND.SUN.COM

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>By my reading of http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/articles/article4.html it says:
>
>Flash Prom Update Multimedia Answer Book CD
>
>To enable 64-bit operation, certain UltraSPARC platforms may need a
>firmware or Flash PROM upgrade, as indicated in this chart:

This is not related to the UltraSPARC-I CPU bug that makes 64 bit
operation exploitable by a user program.

>I'm not sure if the firmware patches are available via the public FTP
>site, though.


They don't need to: they are shipped as part of Solaris 7.

The original firmware does have some bugs that makes 64 bit interactions
with the PROM not work quite right.

Casper

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