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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:47:21 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alpha ref machine is grumpy... 
Message-ID:  <15989.1077572841@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:43:44 EST." <16442.29712.148987.927650@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> 

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In message <16442.29712.148987.927650@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin
 writes:

>I'm guessing it followed a null function pointer.  Maybe the 
>recent device changes had some special affect on alpha.

The fact that you can compile the kernel in the first place rules out
the most common makedev() bogosities, but it is certainly not impossible
that the console code is being creative with dev_t's.  I havn't noticed
it on my way through the tree though.

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