From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Sep 14 6:47: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu [152.1.207.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A0D14BE2 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu) Received: (from bsdbob@localhost) by weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA12705; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:52:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdbob) From: BSD Bob Message-Id: <199909141352.JAA12705@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? In-Reply-To: <19990914123026.B10106@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Sep 14, 1999 12:30:27 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:52:51 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > My preference would be to look at 1) the 4.4BSD code for the sparc > > release (anyone got a source license from SCO that could touch base > > on that?), > > I can help there. I plan to have an SS5 in the near future, and I'll > try to bring 4.4BSD up on that. Sounds like a first step. > Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died? > Mine doesn't know what it is. Serial number, Ethernet address and > Host ID are all -1. It does know about its product type, keyboard, > ROM, and memory size. The nvram faq at sun3arc.krupp.net (the cannonical sun3 archives) would be where I would start. There was, at one time, a script on the net that would take some values you fed it and write you the idprom info needed to get the machine back up. Alas, I have lost that url. There is also an eepromscript that, once up, will read the idprom info, and store it on a disk file, and reread it back from disk, should the nvram ever die again. I have not tried it but it is supposed to work. My 3/80 box has a dead nvram, and I used that technique to get it back up a couple of times. Make sure you keep the numbers around somewhere, for reference. Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message