From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 15 10:16:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3771637B407 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 10:16:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 146575307; Wed, 15 May 2002 19:16:34 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: memory management fault during netbooting on 4.6-PRERELEASE References: <20020514235608.A69014@xor.obsecurity.org> <15586.25870.79809.901266@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 15 May 2002 19:16:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: <15586.25870.79809.901266@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Gallatin 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