Subject: Re: kernel loading problems on macppc, was CVS commit: syssrc/sys/arch/macppc/stand/ofwboot
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@mac.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/20/2002 15:50:37
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> 
>> > The only difference I found is libsa's assumes you can allocate memory by
>> > grabbing it above the loader, while macppc's called OF_claim to get it.
>> > Could others please check this (in libsa's look at the use of the top
>> > pointer)?
> 
>>
>> It could easily be the lack of OF_claim.  PSIM detected a bug in the
>> kernel where the kernel assumed it could just access memory beyond the
>> end of BSS.  That memory, by definition, wasn't mapped to anything.
> 
> 
> ??
> 
> Has this bug been found/fixed?

Yes I believe so.  I filed a bug for it, (what was the number ...).

Andrew