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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 19:44:58 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common ufsread.c
Message-ID:  <20021009174457.GP17920@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <200210081546.g98Fkj4X046967@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200210081546.g98Fkj4X046967@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:46:45AM -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> phk         2002/10/08 08:46:45 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/boot/common      ufsread.c 
>   Log:
>   It seems that the only problem with UFS2 booting on i386 is the 64bit
>   divide/remainder calls.  For reasons not resolved, compiling the
>   relevant routines from libkern into boot2 results in stack corruption.
>   
>   Do the simple thing: Don't use 64bit divide/remainder operations.
>   
>   Sponsored by:   DARPA & NAI Labs

Are there any known show stoppers to try booting an UFS2 partition
on alpha?

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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