Thank you for that information, Ben.  I'm really more of a MacOS guy
and subscribed to these lists out of an interest in low level
hardware issues.  There doesn't seem to be any other forum that
discusses hardware specifically, so you guys (and other Linux/Darwin
lists) who sometimes must program to the hardware are the next best
thing.

Do you have suggestions on where I might begin a hunt for such an OF
patch?  I assume this is something that one could load in NVRAM under
any OS that will take care of the bug until the next time the NVRAM
is reset?

Yes. DTS provides one for some machines (for example the 6400) if you
ask. Some PCI card vendors with a pci<->pci bridge on their card need
it.


Ben.


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