| To: | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> |
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| Subject: | Re: [patch] linux 2.4.5: Make __dbe_table available to modules |
| From: | "Gleb O. Raiko" <raiko@niisi.msk.ru> |
| Date: | Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:11:03 +0400 |
| Cc: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>, Harald Koerfgen <hkoerfg@web.de>, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>, linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
| Organization: | NIISI RAN |
| References: | <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010813181607.23241N-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl> |
| Sender: | owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > The MIPS architecture defines the bus error exception event for data > reads and instruction fetches only. Writes are asynchronous so errors on > them cannot be reported exactly -- some MIPS documentation recommends > using a general-purpose interrupt line for such events. > DBE is treated as ACK* on write. Some HW design manuals advise to use this fact even. Regards, Gleb. |
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