On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 15:23:11 -0000, eeh@netbsd.org wrote:

	> > > You may be able to put the kernel heap and I/O areas above the PROM,
	> >
	> > That's what I currently do.  KERNBASE is at E8000000 (used to be at
	> > region EF, but I moved again because of assumed alignment problems; I
	> > haven't booted the new region E8 kernel though).
	> 
	> You shouldn't have alignment problems at EF000000.

	I do ;-).  Check the message I sent in the morning.  Kernel get
	alignment fault in pmap_create when it calls qzero.  The alignment
	problem is that for EF-based kernel both NKREG and NUREG are not
	evenly divided by 8 (both are prime, actually :) and so qzero cannot
	be safely called for nbytes = N[KU]REG * something.  I don't want to
	hunt subtle assumptions like this throught the tree.

You could always s/qzero/bzero/ and be done with it.

Eduardo