Date: 15 May 2002 19:16:33 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: memory management fault during netbooting on 4.6-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <xzp4rh9z5zi.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <15586.25870.79809.901266@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <20020514235608.A69014@xor.obsecurity.org> <xzpg00t26ia.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <15586.25870.79809.901266@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> writes: > An alpha needs to access memory in naturally aligned chunks. If a > load or store is done to a misaligned address (a 32-bit load from an > address starting on a 16 bit boundary, for example). I know about that, I was just surprised to see unaligned accesses in the base system. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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