Subject: Re: port-sparc/37080: second stage boot loader fails on SparcStation 2
To: None <port-sparc-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.org.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/21/2007 15:00:05
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
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