Subject: Re: try RASOPS_SMALL if you have panics in wscons on hpcmips
To: Darrin B. Jewell <jewell@mit.edu>
From: Andy Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 02/07/2000 11:32:45
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Darrin B. Jewell wrote:

> I noticed that the MobilePro 770 will panic in rasops if you try to
> display an underscore on the console, such as by viewing a formatted
> man page.  I notice in src/sys/dev/rasops/rasops15.c, that many of
> the putchar routines do a "STAMP_READ(30)" which causes an unaligned
> access into the int32_t stamp array.

Silly me. That read is totally bogus for other reasons too.

> Although it might be useful to fix rasops, for now the problem can be
> worked around by using RASOPS_SMALL in your kernel.  

There's also the option of ripping it out of the kernel totally, or
simplifying it, I'll have to think about that.

> This has the added benefit of shrinking your kernel size by a few
> hundered kilobytes.

I find that hard to believe.