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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:40:18 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/4486
Message-ID:  <19970912154018.LD47972@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199709110605.QAA28335@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Sep 11, 1997 16:05:05 %2B1000
References:  <199709110605.QAA28335@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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As Bruce Evans wrote:

> 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.

The problem in question was IMHO non-existing adapter memory (the MDA
frame buffer on an S3 card running in color mode).  You can never be
sure about misbehaving hardware in such cases.  That's not only
video-card related, it's also imaginable with memory-mapped ethernet
cards, for example.

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

How would this be done?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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