[OpenBIOS] Haiku/ppc progress - ofmem_claim misbehavior?

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Mon May 24 18:57:40 CEST 2010


Andreas Färber wrote:

> These are ppc-specific magic numbers in common code where they have no 
> business being - please don't apply!
> 
> The question is, why does claim overwrite the 0x07ed0000 identity map of 
> length 1245184, that I see no in my debug output now, with a 0x07f00000 
> map when using the vanilla OpenBIOS code?

What is the identity map? Is it something used in general for PPC or is 
it specific to Haiku?

Also if you enable DEBUG_CIF in libopenbios/client.c, do you see any 
more useful information?


ATB,

Mark.

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