T4-1 firmware update?

UNIX Solaris
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I just picked up a cheap T4 to play with...does anyone happen to have an recent firmware update for it? It's running a firmware form 2017 so not terribly out of date.

I threw Solaris 11.4 on there on a DVD. I am curious as to how booting an ISO works from USB also if anyone has any info on that. The manuals are vague as to how that actually works.

I'll probably end up running either Gentoo natively or in an LDOM as the main operating system, potentialy doing some compilation for older machines also.

Thanks!

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Hi

No need to upgrade the firmware if yo dont have any problem.
download here to booting using USB

Thanks

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That isn't exactly true there are bugs fixed in releases after the one I have on mine.

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I don't think that I understand your question.

Why don't you just download it from Oracle??

Is this not relevant?

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I mean unless I am wrong that would mean I'd have to fork out an entire support contract just to download firmware updates for a server I paid $200 for.

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Do you really suffer from the bugs?

For example, don't expose the maintenance port to the Internet, and you don't suffer from security bugs.

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I mean I asked a simple question 4 years ago and someone PMed me about that is the only reason I logged back in, maybe they are I have no idea, I just play around with running Gentoo on mine. And yes even if I dont' suffer from the bugs it would be nice to have the latest for any other potential fixes. I am pretty sure there were some Linux stability fixes but its been a couple years since I checked.

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I'm going through something similar at work and have been told by multiple people, not from Oracle, that it's not possible to get a support contract on our T4-1s & T4-2s any more.

So I'm not sure that even if you were willing to spend ten times the amount you said that you'd be able to get the requisite support contract.

Sadly. :slightly_frowning_face:

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I've been burned by proactive firmware updates multiple times in the past.

I subscribe to the school of thought of not upgrading firmware unless you have a reason to.

That reason can be:

  1. because you are or will be impacted by a bug
  2. as a dependency for something you want to do
  3. to test for other systems
  4. you want to

Without one of those four reasons, I'd encourage you to not upgrade the firmware.