From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 14 10:11:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23056 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:11:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23035 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:11:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA08380; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810141710.KAA08380@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Chris Csanady , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel traps on boot.. Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:10:34 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:42:52 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Yes, as the comment in trap.c says: any unaligned access in the kernel > is a bug. > > > think in NetBSD, they just print it to the console. Has anyone > > Last I looked, NetBSD panics. Digital UNIX fixes up unaligned > accesses in versions prior to 4.0d. NetBSD, by default, fixes unaligned accesses for user code, and logs them to the console. All unaligned accesses in the kernel are bugs, hence the panic. Changing the kernel to fixup unaligned access in the kernel is just plain wrong. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 940 5942 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message