Subject: Re: main_fracas
To: T@W <lsp93@xs4all.nl>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/12/2000 09:04:20
At 9:10 PM +0200 5/10/00, T@W wrote:
> For convenience forwarded  by me from:
>
>http://www.newhackcity.net
>
>* affected_configurations:                                                   *
>* NetBSD 1.4.x on SPARC and Alpha platforms were tested and found to be      *
>* vulnerable. Any platform where a page fault is caused by an unaligned      *
>* memory access should also be vulnerable.                                   *
>*                                                                            *
>* unaffected_configurations:                                                 *
>* NetBSD 1.4.x on arm32 and x86 platforms were tested and found to not       *
>* panic. However, this is only because these (and a few other untested)      *
>* platforms do not page fault on unaligned memory accesses.                  *

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the 68000 does 
not fault on unaligned memory access.  Therefore no problem here.


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