Subject: Re: kernel loading problems on macppc, was CVS commit:
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@mac.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/20/2002 12:25:51
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?

Take care,

Bill