Subject: Re: NetBSD/ofppc boots multiuser on Pegasos
To: Jorge Acereda Maci? <jacereda@gmail.com>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 07/27/2006 21:28:20
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:18:44AM +0200, Jorge Acereda Maci? wrote:
> Maybe you have a theory on what's going on. When I copy a file, what I 
> get on the NFS server is a file of the same size, but with chunks of 
> zeros interleaved, that is:
> 
> 0x0000 <correct data>
> 0x1000 <zeros>
> 0x2000 <correct data>
> 0x3000 <zeros>
> ...

It seems possible that OF_write() is not dumping the cache for the data
that you're sending.  I haven't looked at the Openfirmware bindings to
see if that says anything about it.

I don't know off-hand why it would result in exactly that kind of behavior.

-allen

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