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From: Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:36:25 +0000
Subject: Re: [KJ] typo?
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On 6/28/05, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@terra.com.br> wrote:
> Quoting  Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
> Sent on  Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:35:24 +0100
> 
> > > printk(KERN_EMERG "Press L1-A to return to the boot prom\n")
> > > is a typo?
> >
> > On Sparc, no.  What do you think is a typo about it?
> 
> I'd expect "prompt" instead of "prom".  what does 'prom' mean in Sparc, for
> curiosity?

I'm assuming, Programmable Read-Only Memory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROM

Thanks,
Nish

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