mea culpa.

but not maxima.


On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Ross Harvey wrote:

> > Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> >
> > On Sat, 11 Jul 1998 15:39:06 -0700 
> >  "William J. Coldwell" <billc@warped.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > I exhibit this behavior on a Multia with -current.  It looks like
> >  > we can track it down to something done right around the snapshot
> >  > build.  It acts like the booter is jumping to a wrong address and
> >  > just resets the machine.. over and over again :)
> >
> > I suspect this is related to the IDE hack Ross made for the axppci33
> > systype.
> 
> You might suspect this--I did, too--but you would be wrong. Some Other Dude
> Did It; this is apparently known in legal circles as "the SODDI defense".  :-)
> 
> Anyway, I fixed this on Monday, so a working -current has been available
> via sup since about 5AM PDT Tuesday. The bug would have affected any alpha
> with a PCI frame buffer console.
> 
> Ross
>