On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Rainer Orth<ro at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> 
wrote:

> ok, I see. ?Thanks for the clarification. ?Apart from this, I've learned in
> private mail that it is possible to simply load the wanboot program via
> tftp and start the installation from there, irrespective of OBP version.
> This even works (as expected) on WANboot-capable platforms.


Wrong expectation.
Where did you test(platform and OBP level?).

On a few platform vs. OBP level mixtrures it does not work (example:
SB100/SB150 vs. OBP 4.17.1).

Furthermore: There are still other obstacles.

What is your plan?


Regards,
Martin

> Given those
> options, it seems to me that the AI requirements are no reason to deprecate
> sun4u platforms with pre-WANboot OBPs for Indiana, and we can go ahead with
> the fixes for my CR.
>
> Thanks.
> ? ? ? ?Rainer
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