Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:53:54 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common ufsread.c Message-ID: <11046.1034186034@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:44:58 %2B0200." <20021009174457.GP17920@cicely8.cicely.de>
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In message <20021009174457.GP17920@cicely8.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes: >On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:46:45AM -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> phk 2002/10/08 08:46:45 PDT >> >> Modified files: >> sys/boot/common ufsread.c >> Log: >> It seems that the only problem with UFS2 booting on i386 is the 64bit >> divide/remainder calls. For reasons not resolved, compiling the >> relevant routines from libkern into boot2 results in stack corruption. >> >> Do the simple thing: Don't use 64bit divide/remainder operations. >> >> Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs > >Are there any known show stoppers to try booting an UFS2 partition >on alpha? Not that I know of. I don't know how the bootcode arrangement is on alpha, much less what size the UFS2 code results in. I pressume you could give your 'a' partition a start of something like 64k if it larger than the default space, whatever that is. I'm very interested in people with access to hardware to work on this... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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