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Bug #11630
closedremove checks for 64-bit capable hardware
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100%
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Medium
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IPD5
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Description
On SPARC, we still have checks for 64-bit capable hardware (doing clunky string-comparisons on dates to see if the boot prom has been flashed to an appropriate level).
This made sense at the time of the Solaris 7 launch, but people have had over 20 years to update their boot proms. Anyone with such a system (sunfire is being removed as part of IPD5 anyway) should have already updated their firmware.
This only affects a few platforms (E250, E450, E3000-E6000) which straddled the transition.
We also still check for UltraSPARC-I processors, which haven't been supported for 15 years.
Updated by Electric Monk over 3 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
git commit 9cb0a1d4446fe891a01d01e07b2e27f0177c84cd
commit 9cb0a1d4446fe891a01d01e07b2e27f0177c84cd Author: Peter Tribble <peter.tribble@gmail.com> Date: 2019-09-07T10:38:14.000Z 11630 remove checks for 64-bit capable hardware Reviewed by: Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.net> Reviewed by: Andy Fiddaman <omnios@citrus-it.co.uk> Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>
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