On Tue, 12 May 1998 17:21:15 -0700 
 "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@pa.dec.com> wrote:

 > > This bad access, I would thing should cause a mem fault or seg fault
 > > but instead hangs the system!
 > 
 > Access hardware in the wrong way, and you lose.  that's not too
 > surprising.  8-)

...right, and the reason it doens't cause an MMU fault is because the
access is done through the KSEG.

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