Robert Watson wrote: > crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78, 0 Dec 31 1969 pci This one may appear harmless, but it is not. It is trivially easy to create an alignment fault (fatal on an alpha) with the userland pciconf tool. We must not allow this to be used by users until the kernel part is fixed. Eg: try this on an alpha: pciconf -r -l pci0:x:x 0x3 - ie: read a longword at byte offset 3 in configuration space.. kaboom! Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message