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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 1997 16:05:05 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, joerg@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/4486
Message-ID:  <199709110605.QAA28335@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>As suggested by Tor Egge <tegge@idi.ntnu.no>, the actual problem was
>that attempting to dump parts of the adapter memory region (most
>likely the video adapter memory in this case) caused the hang.  Tor's
>suggested workaround has been committed, in a slightly generalized
>form.

There should be no problem with adapter memory for wddump(), since
adapter memory should look like ordinary memory at least when it is
accessed via normal instructions <= 32 bits at a time.

Does the broken system also hang for 64-bit video accesses via the FPU?

Bruce



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