Blade 100 w/ 5.4-PRERELEASE console

[David O'Brien]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 06:19:35PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 12:22:14AM -0600, Will Andrews wrote:
> > mess with the OBP variables.  I believe this is needless pain for
> > users trying to install FreeBSD on their Blade 100s (and possibly
> > other models).
> 
> No, this is a nit which easily can be worked around. A real pain is
> that binutils are broken on sparc64 and users have to manually apply
> a patch to the base src and recompile binutils in order to be able
> to build a number of ports.

Applying a patch that is running work around is a nit which can be easily
worked around.  NOT being able to boot to apply a patch isn't.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)