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Re: [MiNT] MP on Hades 040



Hi!

On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 09:18:38PM +0000, Odd Skancke wrote:
>  Frank, what exactly does type=hardware mean?

I'm not Frank, but I'll answer anyway: "Type hardware" means that the
accessed memory is outside the user RAM, i.e. it's neither below
_memtop, nor inside (0x01000000, _ramtop). In that case, MiNT assumes
that either non-existant memory has been accessed, or some kind of
hardware register failure occured. For user RAM, you'll only see "free"
(memory is not currently owned by anyone), "private" (memory does not
belong to your process and you haven't been granted any access),
"readable" (you tried to write to memory you are only allowed to read),
and, last not least, "super" (you tried to access memory that is
supervisor-protected, but your process currently runs in user mode).


Ciao

Thomas


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