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Date:      Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:59:35 +0000
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Gheorghe Ardelean <ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de>, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: firmware update on Blade 1500
Message-ID:  <20091204165935.GA53231@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0912041748520.7157@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de>
References:  <20091204145230.GA52366@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091204150929.GA52455@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <alpine.LNX.2.00.0912041624160.7157@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de> <20091204153353.GA52633@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <alpine.LNX.2.00.0912041701530.7157@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de> <20091204162733.GA52861@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <alpine.LNX.2.00.0912041748520.7157@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de>

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On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:53:43PM +0100, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:

> P.S. To answer another question from you: I don't think you will be able to use
> the keyboard as long as you do not have a supported console (syscons 
> should attach) so it could be that the serial console will be the only 
> option until you put a supoorted graphic card in the machine (IIRC, there 
> are a few based on ATI chips).

wow.. that's too bad..

anyway many thanks for your help and advice.

-- 
Anton Shterenlikht
Room 2.6, Queen's Building
Mech Eng Dept
Bristol University
University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944
Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423



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