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Re: XF86_S3 server for Jensen Boards

Subject: Re: XF86_S3 server for Jensen Boards
From: Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Date: Sun Mar 26 18:48:22 2000


On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 03:43:24PM +0200, Carsten Jacobi wrote:
> ... is compiled with the assembly option "-m21164" from the spec-file. It
> seams that some pal calls are created this way that are not supported by
> 21064 chips.

No, this is not the cause. PAL code instructions are only executable
from PAL mode, not from kernel or user mode. There are no such PAL mode
instructions in the X server.

> (the method is s3QueryBestSize and the assembly dump just contains callpal
> and halt instructions which doesn't really make sense for a code that is
> supposed to run correctly).

This is a sign of disassembling data instead of code. Whether or
not there was supposed to be data at that address is another matter.

r~

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