Re: kern/46828 6.0_BETA2 and 6.0_RC1 won't start on DL320/G5p

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/46828; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/46828 6.0_BETA2 and 6.0_RC1 won't start on DL320/G5p
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:05:33 +0900

 >  >  In p.131, 
 >  >  "One semaphore is for the operating system (OS) and one is for the
 >  >  BIOS. These semaphores are readable and writable. These fields are in
 >  >  adjacent bytes, which allows each agent (OS or BIOS) to update their
 >  >  respective semaphore without overwriting the other ownership semaphore."
 >  
 >  That description makes me think that the code should be doing byte
 >  writes.
 
 For me "overwriting the other ownership semaphore"
 just means "changing the other semaphore bit."
 
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 Izumi Tsutsui