> Thanks, I have been looking for this bug!
>
> I am not looking at the code right now, but I'll bet that "nvram" is a
> pointer to PCI memory. On most Alphas, including mine, you cannot
> directly de-reference memory like that. Just a guess, but the code
> should probably look like
>
> writel (0, &nvram->type);
>
> Let me know if a patch emerges out of this (before I fix it), because I
> cannot boot my alpha at the moment. I haven't had time to look at Alpha
> much due to the upcoming Mandrake release, otherwise it is probably a
> 5-minute fix...
No, nvram is just a pointer to an automatic variable.
Have a nice fortnight
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