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From: Vladimir Roubtsov <roubtsov>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: /kernel: "rtinit: wrong ifa ...." ????
Date: 30 May 1996 20:00:55 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Hi:
	A question to knowledgeable folks: what can a message

/kernel: rtinit: wrong (or bad) ifa: <some hex #> was <different hex #>
( or close to this )

	possibly mean ? I am not sure what sequence of events triggers this, I've only
seen this twice in ~month of using 2.1R. What "ifa" stands for isn't obvious to
me.
	I am running 2.1R with trimmed kernel (support for hardware I don't have
removed; EOI feature of master interrupt controller turned on) on Pentium 75
Tyan Titan III PCI mbrd with Cirrus PCI SVGA video card and WD 1.2 Gb EIDE hard
drive.
	It is possible that both times I was running X312_SVGA server and running
user-land ppp on COM2. The X server might've been in 16bpp mode in which case
it was using linear addressing and memory-mapped IO (as configured by me; this
screws things up in regular 8bpp mode though).
	Any help will be appreciated,
Vlad.