On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Peter Teichmann wrote:

: > : RiscBSD says "Strongarm rev. 2, bugged STM^ instruction".
: > 
: > AFAIK, that means you _do_ have a buggy chip.
: 
: Hm. But I thought the buffed STM^ instruction is only important for the OS,
: that means the kernel. And there was also an easy fix for that, if I
: remember right.

As Richard pointed out, it also has problems with LDM at the end of a page.

: So why should it have only effect with programs using Lesstif or Xaw3d?

These libraries apparently compiled with LDM at the end of a page somewhere
in the code. `Dumb luck.'

: Also strange is that if the programs once started up ok, they work
: without problems (ok except that mozilla is very buggy) but they do not
: crash.

I'd hazard a guess that if you started doing some significant swapping,
you'd find that the same programs will crash even if they started up OK.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)