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Date:      Sat, 11 May 1996 14:25:50 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu, bde@zeta.org.au
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, nisha@cs.berkeley.edu
Subject:   Re: some more on fast bcopy
Message-ID:  <199605110425.OAA11493@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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> * I think this is caused by the FPU probe failing.  It only happens when
> * npxdna() returns 0, and npxdna() only returns 1 if the probe failed.
> * bcopy() is sure to be called at boot time before the npx0 probe, and
> * this might foul the probe.  There must be another bug for the crash to
> * be so long delayed.

>I've been saying bcopy() but the code is actually only called from
>copyin() and copyout(). ;)

Oops.  npxdna() is only relevant for user mode.  You must be getting a
trap of type T_DNA (device not available) in system mode.  This can't
happen :-).  `clts' make the coprocessor device available and nothing
should change the TS bit.

Bruce



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