Subject: Re: diskless boot fails on Super COMPstation 20S
To: John R. Daily <jdaily@bbn.com>
From: Rolf Larsson <rln@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/08/1997 10:07:08
People have been saying:
> > So, any ideas on either problem? Is 'deadbeef' supposed to be some
> > sort of sick twisted joke? :)
> 
> I'm afraid I can't contribute much to the discussion, but I can
> at least point out that "deadbeef" is Sun's standard string to
> insert into the kernel at a certain point in memory to keep an
> eye on, and determine whether that block of memory has been
> (wrongly) modified.

IIRC, Sun also uses 0xcafebabe in their java classes. I have no
idea for what, though...

- Rolf
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Rolf Larsson		rln@ludd.luth.se	http://www.luth.se/~rln/