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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2006 17:19:41 +0530
From:      "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
To:        "Peter Jeremy" <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-alpha@infopuls.com, alpha@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0
Message-ID:  <84dead720605190449v27bfc32ar7b55fbd0bf74ff9c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060519111519.GA1587@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060518101734.4036.qmail@dachs.cyberlink.ch> <20060519082621.GA736@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060519094154.GA10634@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060519111519.GA1587@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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> SPARC definitely requires aligned accesses.  I'm not sure what Sun
> did with the SPARC64.  The other option is to set the "alignment
> checking" bit on i386.

The AC bit only works for privilege level 3 (userland code) on the i386.

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