Re: sparc sun4c support - time to drop it?

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Hi Kaj,

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Kaj-Michael Lang <milang@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 18:21 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> Is it time to drop support for sun4c - or is anyone still
>> having an interest keeping that platform alive?
>
> I'd probably be running my sun4c from time to time, unfortunately that
> Really-Bad-Choice of clock+battery module that Sun made has "killed"
> many of my older suns.

You know, with a few simple hand tools, a replacement battery, and
some knowledge of OpenFirmware, you can fix them.

See here:

http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

Thanks,

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