Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:33:18 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel traps on boot.. Message-ID: <199810141833.LAA01067@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:10:34 PDT." <199810141710.KAA08380@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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>On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:42:52 -0400 (EDT) > Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> 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. Kernel printf's spewing on the console are a pretty annoying way to encourage someone to fix the problem. I think I'd rather see that than a panic. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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