Download Firmware With Oracle Solaris pkg Command

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This procedure shows how to obtain firmware packages from the Oracle Solaris image packaging system (IPS).

The firmware packages are available in the Oracle Solaris support repository. The publisher URI for Oracle's support repository is https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support/.

In a terminal window, list the newest firmware packages applicable to the SPARC T8 servers.
```
# pkg list -n 'firmware/system/*T8*'
```
Note - You do not need to install older updates. You can install just the newest update, and then continue to update from there.
Use the Oracle Solaris pkg command to install and update packages containing system firmware.
The first time you install firmware packages from the support repository, you must use the pkg install command. Subsequently, when you need to update firmware packages that were installed from the repository, use the pkg update command.

To download the latest firmware updates using pkg for the first time for a T8-1 system:
```
pkg install firmware/system/T8-1
```
To update previously installed firmware packages using pkg for a T8-1 system:
```
pkg update firmware/system/T8-1
```
If you need a specific firmware version rather than the latest firmware in the repository, you must specify an FMRI that includes the version number. This would have a form similar to firmware/system/T8-1/sysfw9-8@9.8.x.x.

The firmware package delivers the files to a directory with a name similar to /var/firmware/system/T8-n/sysfw9-8/pnnnnnnn_nnnx/Firmware/Sun_System_Firmware.

See "Platform Firmware Updates for SPARC Systems" in Adding and Updating Software in Oracle Solaris 11.3 for more information.

Proceed to apply the firmware updates using instructions in Update the System Firmware from Oracle ILOM or Update the System Firmware From the Host.