Subject: Re: Re[2]: unixfs and StrongARM
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen <thomassk@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/16/1996 10:45:13
> From: "Mark Brinicombe" <amb@physig4.ph.kcl.ac.uk>
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 16:21:17 +0100
> 
>>  Till yesterday, when I upgraded my system to 3.7 I couldn't use the
>>unixfs distributed with the latest bootloader. Now the new one works.
>>Even with SA! (I'm using a cumana SCSI2 card)
> 
> yikes .... that is surprising with the self modifing code that exists in unixfs
> ;-)
> It is the usual problem of assembling swi instructions in workspace or on the
> stack ...

It does not surprise me that much. unixfs runs in RISC OS, and ART
has included code in RISC OS 3 v. 3.7 that will correct some problem
code on the fly. I guess this is the case here.

Kjetil B.