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Mon Oct 8 16:18:06 2007 UTC (16 years, 5 months ago) by dpavlin
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0.3.2
1 $Id: BUGS,v 1.32 2005/03/05 11:18:31 debug Exp $
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4 Serious bugs:
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6 x) An unknown math coprocessor bug. (Ultrix' dxclock sometimes looks
7 weird.)
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9 x) Enabling cache emulation (./configure --enable-caches) triggers bugs.
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11 x) Linux/DECstation (Debian) oopses extremely often unless -U is used
12 at run-time. I'm not sure yet why it bugs out. With -U, the risk is
13 lower, but not completely gone. _Maybe_ this is a bug in Linux. Why?
14 Because the oops message contains things like ANSI escape codes and
15 characters in registers (including the pc and return address register);
16 this looks like a buffer overflow in the serial driver. (Another thing
17 that gives weight to this theory is that the serial driver in Linux is
18 still being developed.) But this is just a guess.
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20 x) bintrans bugs. (For example, NetBSD/sgimips for IP22/24 hangs during
21 boot with bintrans enabled.)
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24 Less serious bugs / issues:
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26 o) hardware device ticks are done at cycle specific intervals, not
27 instruction intervals, so sometimes a fraction of a cycle can be
28 "lost".
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30 o) running Linux/DECstation 2.4.26 with no scsi disks attached causes
31 a warning message to be printed by Linux.
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33 o) UDP packets that are too large are not handled well by the Lance device.
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35 o) Colors in X11 framebuffers on MacOS X hosts are wrong. (I'm not sure
36 how to solve this; the code works on both little-endian (Alpha) and
37 big-endian (UltraSPARC) X-servers...)
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39 o) bintranslated 64-bit stuff checks to see if the top 32 bits are
40 all zeroes or all ones, and then uses 32-bit tables and such. This
41 is a bug. It should check the top 33 bits, not 32. (Alpha only, already
42 fixed for i386?)
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44 o) NetBSD/arc 2.0 uses the ASC controller in a way which GXemul cannot yet
45 handle. (NetBSD 1.6.2 works ok.)
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