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Re: port-macppc/48600



On Jan 5,  8:33pm, scole_mail%gmx.com@localhost (scole_mail) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: port-macppc/48600

| On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:40:04PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
| >  
| >  Maybe a stupid question: why are %r1/%r8 not properly aligned here?
| >  
| >  Martin
| >  
| 
| The 601 will get alignment exceptions if operands cross page
| boundaries or word operands end in 0xffd - 0xfff.  The latter was what
| was happening to me.  Byte operands don't generate alignment
| exceptions.
| 
| I'm not sure why code in Locore.c didn't cause issues earlier with
| ofwboot.xcf.  I seemed only to get the exceptions when booting off the
| disk.

This could be what is causing problems with PearPC. Have you tried that.
It currently dies loading the kernel. I will try with your changes.

christos


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