Re: R5000 support (specifically two-way set-associative cache...)

[Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Dominic Sweetman wrote:
> Jun Sun (jsun@mvista.com) writes:
> > 3. I understand Geert has a port to DDB5074 (with Vr5000 CPU).  Is this
> > port completed (including all interrupts, PCI related stuff).  Is this
> > port reliable?
> 
> A note on this and Geert's response: early Vrc5074 system controller
> chips had lots of bugs, with some particularly nasty ones hitting PCI
> transfers with external initiators (like the ethernet chip).  Anyone
> pioneering Linux on it should check carefully with NEC about the
> status of their particular revision.

Since the same boards are fine running Aperios, I assume we don't have the
early ones.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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