On 19-Jul-01 Terry Lambert wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > A "shakedown cruise" could end up being very rough... you
>> > would effectively need to check an "unaligned access in
>> > kernel is OK" flag in many of these instances, and fall back
>> > to doing the copy when it was false.
>>
>> ...therefore - never mind.
>> Perhaps some app code may break. ;-)
>
> The point was that this code breaks on some architectures
> supported by FreeBSD anyway, and moving at least some of
> the pain onto x86 people would end up minimizing that
> breakage.
>
> Right now, being able to make a bug break all architectures
> equally looks pretty good to people having to keep up with
> the x86 port of FreeBSD's rate of breakage of others, like
> the Alpha, when people with just x86 hardware break things
> without knowing it.
It is very rare that the alpha port is broken as you describe. Sometimes
a bug will have a different affect on the alpha than on x86, but except
for bugs in sys/alpha that x86'ers won't be committing, very few of the bugs
break just the alpha and not the x86 as well.
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