[8545] in bugtraq
Re: [Fwd: NOTE: Solaris 7 gotcha for some ultras]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Casper Dik)
Sat Nov 14 13:51:28 1998
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 12:15:41 +0100
Reply-To: Casper Dik <casper@HOLLAND.SUN.COM>
From: Casper Dik <casper@HOLLAND.SUN.COM>
X-To: "Tabor J. Wells" <twells@SHORE.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:40:09 EST."
<19981113104009.K5515@shore.net>
>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
