{"id":200,"date":"2007-12-04T21:18:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/04\/sun-ipx-rising\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T11:32:18","slug":"sun-ipx-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/04\/sun-ipx-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun IPX rising!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning<\/em>: this is actually an old post I had forgotten.
\nI decided to publish it as a thank you note to radrob<\/a>, for the precious gift of an NVRAM chip for my smallest baby… :-)
\nIf you’re interested in what an NVRAM\/IDPROM chip is, this is the best resource<\/a> on the ‘net, imho.
\nThe chips came from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ok banner<\/strong>
\nSPARCstation IPX, No Keyboard
\nROM Rev. 2.9, 64 MB memory installed, Serial #16777215.
\nEthernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID: ffffffff.<\/p>\n

WARNING: Unable to determine keyboard type
\nWARNING: TOD Oscillator NOT Running, Kickstart in Progress ... Incorrect configuration checksum<\/p>\n

Setting diag-switch? NVRAM parameter to true<\/p>\n

ok banner<\/strong>
\nSPARCstation IPX, No Keyboard
\nROM Rev. 2.9, 64 MB memory installed, Serial #0.
\nEthernet address 0:0:0:0:0:0, Host ID: 00000000.
\nok .idprom<\/strong>
\nFormat\/Type: 0 0 Ethernet: 0 0 0 0 0 0 Date: 0 0 0 0
\nSerial: 0 0 0 Checksum: 1 Reserved: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0<\/p>\n

ok 8 0 20 ba dd ec c0ffee mkpl [CTRL+D][CTRL+R]<\/em><\/strong>
\nok .idprom<\/strong>
\nFormat\/Type: 1 57 Ethernet: 8 0 20 ba dd ec Date: 0 0 0 0
\nSerial: c0 ff ee Checksum: 24 Reserved: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
\nok banner<\/strong>
\nSPARCstation IPX, No Keyboard
\nROM Rev. 2.9, 64 MB memory installed, Serial #12648430.
\nEthernet address 8:0:20:ba:dd:ec, Host ID: 57c0ffee.
\nok boot disk1<\/strong>
\nBoot device: \/sbus\/esp@0,800000\/sd@1,0 File and args:
\n>> NetBSD\/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.14
\n>> (root@amd, Sun Nov 21 12:38:27 CET 2004)<\/p>\n

# uname -a<\/strong>
\nNetBSD ipx 2.0_RC5 NetBSD 2.0_RC5 (GENERIC) #1: Wed Nov 17 01:01:24 CET 2004
\nroot@amd:\/root\/netbsd2\/src\/sys\/arch\/sparc\/compile\/obj\/GENERIC sparc
\n<\/code>
\nI know, it’s not a current version (cross compiled on linux or netbsd, I don’t remember), but good enough for this little beast. Whoknows if I can cross compile on OSX, too. Uhmm…<\/p>\n

In other news, I upgraded WP to 2.3.1. 70-something days are enough after a major release, I hope.<\/p>\n

*UPDATE*<\/strong> 20071206: Changed radrob site (newer, faster, better, updated!), added link to maxim-ic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warning: this is actually an old post I had forgotten. I decided to publish it as a thank you note to radrob, for the precious gift of an NVRAM chip for my smallest baby… :-) If you’re interested in what an NVRAM\/IDPROM chip is, this is the best resource on the ‘net, imho. The chips … Continue reading “Sun IPX rising!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[12,11],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-geek","tag-hardware","tag-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}