Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:10:34 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel traps on boot.. Message-ID: <199810141710.KAA08380@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:42:52 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote: > Yes, as the comment in trap.c says: any unaligned access in the kernel > is a bug. > > > think in NetBSD, they just print it to the console. Has anyone > > Last I looked, NetBSD panics. Digital UNIX fixes up unaligned > accesses in versions prior to 4.0d. NetBSD, by default, fixes unaligned accesses for user code, and logs them to the console. All unaligned accesses in the kernel are bugs, hence the panic. Changing the kernel to fixup unaligned access in the kernel is just plain wrong. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 940 5942 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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