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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] struct problems
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 04:54:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001101c3169f$87a8bea0$e3944251@insultant.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305091422180.11075-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>

From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
> yes, the whole bitfield thing is a total botch when it cames to real
> hardware. Truly bad things happen.

they did; john mackin & i fixed 'em [sending the fixes to 1127] -- ugly ...

extract field instructions just didn't work on the 780's 16 bit UBA device
registers.

don't even get me started on the 'bitmap of free/used ram' on 32V ...

bonus points: what (and how much) did the 780 set to zero on boot?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-10  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-07  4:36 Christopher Nielsen
2003-05-07  5:34 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-05-07  5:36   ` Nigel Roles
2003-05-07  5:41     ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-05-08  7:30       ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-09 20:22         ` ron minnich
2003-05-09 21:09           ` Geoff Collyer
2003-05-09 23:29             ` Scott Schwartz
2003-05-10  2:54           ` boyd, rounin [this message]
2003-05-10  5:04             ` northern snowfall
2003-05-10  4:11               ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-12  8:56           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-05-12  9:29             ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-07  7:32 ` northern snowfall
2003-05-07 11:05   ` Bruce Ellis
2003-05-07 13:06     ` northern snowfall
2003-05-07 12:47       ` Bruce Ellis
2003-05-07 13:50         ` northern snowfall
2003-05-07 17:01         ` [9fans] snapshots -> archives rog
2003-05-07 17:02           ` Russ Cox
2003-05-07 15:47 ` [9fans] acme/sam problem ron minnich
2003-05-07 15:59   ` Russ Cox
2003-05-07 16:32     ` ron minnich
2003-05-07 16:00   ` andrey mirtchovski
     [not found] <presotto@closedmind.org>
2003-05-10  0:13 ` [9fans] struct problems David Presotto
2003-05-10  0:22   ` Scott Schwartz
2003-05-10  4:49   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-05-10  4:52     ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-10  5:20       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-05-10  5:19         ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-10  7:11       ` Dennis Ritchie
2003-05-10 16:53         ` matt
2003-05-10 16:58           ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-10 16:58           ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-10 18:08             ` northern snowfall
2003-05-10 17:12               ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-10 22:34               ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-10 23:09         ` jmk
2003-05-10 23:16           ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-11  2:07             ` rob pike, esq.
2003-05-11  2:26               ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-11  3:48             ` Dennis Ritchie
2003-05-11  3:54               ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-10 23:26           ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-11  2:06           ` rob pike, esq.
2003-05-10 23:54         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-05-11  2:08           ` rob pike, esq.
2003-05-11  2:31             ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-11  6:04               ` rob pike, esq.
2003-05-11  7:03                 ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-12  8:56       ` Anthony Mandic
2003-05-12  9:27         ` boyd, rounin

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