cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/sparc64 ofw_machdep.c

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Sat May 21 22:16:07 GMT 2005


On May 21, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Marius Strobl wrote:
*snip*
>   - Make sure that the OFW address properties that are going to be 
> decode
>     consist of the expected number of address and size cells (we can't 
> use
>     dynamic arrays here because at the point in the boot process when 
> this
>     code is used malloc() doesn't work, yet). This fixes a Fast Data 
> Access
>     MMU Miss when uart(4) (erroneously) calls OF_decode_addr() to 
> decode
>     the address of PS/2 keyboards.

Interesting. Do you know why uart(4) calls OF_decode_addr() in that
case? And is it something uart(4) needs to be taught not to do?

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  Marcel Moolenaar         USPA: A-39004          marcel at xcllnt.net



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