Jan, thanks for your detailed answer! I should have (finally) read all the ieee1275 datasheets before starting to publically talk about that, and unintentionally spreading untruths.
Thanks for the correction, overview and outlook. I should have known it better a bit: I once experimented with different CMD/Sil0649 uata controllers. Including flavours, who identify themselves as 'raid', rather than 'ide' (and have no jp0 jumper to externally set their pci id's). It was still possible to work around that using nvedit and a script, so that the Ultra5-OBP's builtin 'ide' drivers would detect, initiate and boot off it (up to the point where '/' should be initially mounted). USB needs to be supported (have a Forth OF-driver) inside 'ok /packages/SUNWbuilt-drivers'. Are parts of OBP open source? Maybe even for a specific box. Or are there plans? -martin > > p.s.: Is SUNW interested in GRUB2 on sparc? We finally could boot from > > USB mass storage then. [...] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
