Re: [MiNT] MP on Hades 040

[Odd Skancke <oskancke@online.no>]

Hi, Jörg!

On Thu, 27 May 1999, Jörg Westheide wrote:

> Hi Odd!
> 
> OS>Hmmm... AA means "Accessed Address", right?
> Yes
> 
> OS>what exactly does type=hardware mean? This violation is happening in
> OS>the ALT memory address space, if I'm not totally misunderstanding
> OS>something here.
> AFAIK type=hardware means that GLUE (or a chip with similar function)
> reported a bus error (in this case most probable caused by a timeout because
> none is reporting that he will handle the access (that means no one activated
> the \DTACK or similar signal), so it's an access to no man's land)
> 

 Ok, this is kinda what I  thought it was, but Thomas says that it is
accesses to "unexistent" memory, i.e., an access was made to an address
that had an invalid root, pointer or page level descriptor.

 Which is the correct?


Odd Skancke - ozk@atari.org