On Thu, 25 May 2000, Harald Koerfgen wrote:
> On 22-Jul-99 Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > CVSROOT: /src/ftp/cvs
> > Module name: linux
> > Changes by: ralf@linus.linux.sgi.com 99/07/21 18:57:14
> >
> > Modified files:
> > include/asm-mips: Tag: linux_2_2 pgtable.h
> >
> > Log message:
> > Away you demons of memory corruption. Burn, bug burn ...
But they returned:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Harald Koerfgen wrote:
> On 15-Feb-00 Richard van den Berg wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Harald Koerfgen wrote:
> >
> >> Log message:
> >> o bootmem fixes for DECstations
> >> o declarations in pgtable.h fixed
> >> o cache management for R3000 improved
> >
> > [ravdberg@dolce ravdberg]$ uname -a
> > Linux dolce 2.3.38 #5 Mon Feb 14 19:13:31 CET 2000 mips unknown
> > [ravdberg@dolce ravdberg]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > cpu : MIPS
> > cpu model : R3000A V3.0
> > system type : Digital Personal DECstation 5000/xx
> > BogoMIPS : 24.84
> > byteorder : little endian
> > unaligned accesses : 0
> > wait instruction : no
> > microsecond timers : no
> > extra interrupt vector : no
> > hardware watchpoint : no
> > VCED exceptions : not available
> > VCEI exceptions : not available
>
> Never mind, but, beware, swapping is broken for 2.3.38 with R3000.
>
> While talking about the subject, I've put some assumptions into the
> optimisation which seem to be valid for R3000As, but I am not exactly shure if
> they are true for other R2000/R3000 variants. Thus, I'd like to have some
> feedback from other boxes, for example DS2100/3100 or Bagets.
On 2.3.99-pre8 swapping is still broken... 2.3.21 is the latest version
with swapping working on R3000 DECstation I know of.
Regards,
Richard
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