[micro:bit] Remove firmware test #46914
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Report from micro:bit partners that maker/setup was not working and was failing at this step. Quotes from email correspondence below:
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An error in the firmware check appears be the hangup. I used the debugger and changed the value of MICROBIT_FIRMWARE_VERSION used for comparison to be "" (empty string). . After that I was able to get a primitive app to run and report updates to accelerometer values. So....seems pretty likely that the hangup is all due to the initial firmware version check process.
This appears to be a race condition, since I (EPeach) can't repro this locally and we haven't had reports from people on our team who've tested this. Since we are still in pre-Beta release, I'm going to remove this check for now and add a Jira ticket to track re-adding this check. The only downside to removing this is that we now aren't able to identify if people have incorrect firmware. Since this is pre-Beta and this error is blocking our partners, I think this is appropriate to remove.