[rescue] SparcStation 1+ TurboGX framebuffer card incompatibility

[mike stedman]

Sounds like a good theory to me, thanks. '.version' at my openprom
prompt returns "Release 1.3, Version 4."

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:33 PM, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 09:19:08PM -0600, mike stedman wrote:
>>
>> When I install it into the machine, it refuses to boot, complaining on
>> the serial console about "Unimplemented FCode token before address
>> ffd1c259" and then hangs while "setting up console parameters." Since
>> this is a high-memory address, I assume this is related to the video
>> card, or its firmware, or some kind of discovery process.
>
>
> Might be the prom revision.
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.sun.admin/C07fmKKq-_E
>
> "The FE Handbook says that TGX with SS1 and SS1+ requires OBP 2.x.
> 2.9 version 9 seems to be the latest (final?) version. Part # 525-1208-02"
>
> Perhaps someone on here can hook you up with that rev OBP?
>
> Bill
>
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