>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
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