pcs750.bin not necessarily right

Ed Gould ed at mtxinu.UUCP
Fri Jan 2 11:44:32 AEST 1987


>The 4.3 boot program knows to
>load the file `pcs750.bin' into the 750 patch store.  The code to
>do this is not terribly large, and is all contained in /sys/stand/boot.c
>at your nearest 4.3 site, which also has /pcs750.bin.

The pcs750.bin that comes with 4.3BSD is *not necessarily* the right
microcode to load on all 750's.  If you have been standalone-loading
microcode with the DEC diagnostic monitor, that microcode patch is
likely to be the right code.  Replace pcs750.bin with the DEC microcode.

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