[chulofiasco]

Am I right in assuming, no matter what my firmware situation is, that I should manually upgrade the L1 through the recommended version laddering to 1.48 and then just install these two patches through the software manager?

Since the 7149 patch will not correctly ladder upgrade, if it attempts to install it will likely brick one of the L1 slots, correct?

Does the PROM work the same way? After manual upgrade to L1 1.48, should I then install 7149 via inst and then install 7208?  Will those PROM flashes happen automatically on inst or does it just put the bin/img file in the correct folder where I still need to run the flash command in myself?

Just trying to understand the ordering.

I dont think the L1 firmware gets automatically updated, the PROM does though.. 

I had to manually upgrade my L1 firmware on all of my machines, even with patches and irix installs.