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Matthew Jacob writes:
> Actually, to be fair, we'd have to consider all the kernel subsystems that
> have *not* in fact been tested on alpha. The dozens of warnings from NetGraph
> or CODA code indicate that there might be problems there, for instance.

NetGraph certainly has some 32-bit asssumptions embedded in it that
actively break on an Alpha.  See kern/27767.

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Sudish Joseph

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