Frankly, I'm not entirely certain which version the Montavista kernel
is. We were supposed to be doing the software validation for
PMC-Sierra (who contracted to Montavista for the work), so this is one
of the later kernels from that process. But I really don't know
exactly which one...
As for the 'wait' thing... forgot to try that one. How does one go
about disabling the wait instruction, anyway?
Matt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Popov [mailto:ppopov@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 3:55 PM
> To: Matthew Dharm
> Cc: linux-mips
> Subject: RE: Help with OOPSes, anyone?
>
>
> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 15:31, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > Well, here's the latest test results...
> >
> > The 2.4.0 kernel from MontaVista seems to work just fine.
> Of course,
> > it doesn't have support for the full range of interrupts,
> but that's a
> > separate matter. But it doesn't crash under big compiles.
>
> 2.4.0 from MontaVista? Do you mean the very first release, which was
> 2.4.0-test9?
>
> > 2.4.17 with CONFIG_MIPS_UNCACHED crashes. It takes
> longer, but that
> > may just be a function of it running so much slower. The BogoMIPS
> > drops by a factor of 100. Ouch.
> >
> > So it doesn't look like a cache problem after all. And it does
> > suggest that something introduced between 2.4.0 and .17
> is what broke
> > things. But what that is, I have no idea.
> >
> > I'm going to try Jason's modified cache code just in
> case, but I doubt
> > that will change anything. We'll have to see, tho.
> >
> > Does anyone have any other suggestions to try? I'm
> starting to wonder
> > if perhaps the PROM isn't setting up the SDRAM properly, but that
> > conflicts with the working 2.4.0 kernel -- the PROM is the same in
> > both cases, so I would expect a PROM error to affect both
> versions.
> >
> > I'm running out of ideas here... anyone?
>
> If you're absolutely sure 2.4.0-test9 doesn't crash (you
> ran the test
> "enough" times), perhaps you can start testing kernels
> between 2.4.0 and
> 2.4.17. And, you did get rid of the 'wait' instruction in 2.4.17,
> right ;-)?
>
> Pete
>
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