Subject: Re: -current does not like non-boot disk
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@canolog.ninthwonder.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/15/1998 00:14:33
At 22:11 Uhr +0100 14.12.1998, Allen Briggs wrote:
>> so "fp->f_type" is 0x2704 if I read things right.
>
>IIRC, 0x2704 is the status register at SPL7.  Coincidence?  Is d0 still
>valid at the point of the panic?  I expect not.  I think I got 0 when I
>put a printf() in there.

Hum. Would have been nice if a panic preserved the cpu registers, no?

-- "A man can dream!"  =8)

Still, of course, you may be right. On the other hand, when I recall my
experiences with the iwm code, once driver code runs amok, you can expect
_anything_ illogical in your variables.

	hauke


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