Bug #11225
There are no positrons
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Due date:
% Done:
100%
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Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
IPD5
Description
The SPARC startup code checks, with the iam_positron() function, if we're being booted on a positron.
This was an early PCI development system. Two decades on, we shouldn't need to check for this, even if it's possible that one or two instances escaped into the wild.
There are a couple of references to positron elsewhere, in audio and pci code. Without further detailed knowledge of the platform and any bugs subsequently fixed (or not) in firmware, it's unclear whether we can do anything about those.
History
Updated by Electric Monk 6 months ago
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
- Status changed from New to Closed
git commit 6bf877adf2723073f60a3b3716918191ca1309d1
commit 6bf877adf2723073f60a3b3716918191ca1309d1 Author: Peter Tribble <peter.tribble@gmail.com> Date: 2019-06-18T00:10:49.000Z 11225 There are no positrons Reviewed by: Andy Stormont <astormont@racktopsystems.com> Reviewed by: Gergő Doma <domag02@gmail.com> Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@joyent.com>