On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > > > I looked arround your website and saw
> > > > "mips64-linux-ip28-2002-06-28.tar.gz"
> > > > whoo.. Sounds exiting =]
> > > I know it's somewhat outdated. :-)
> >
> > Hehe.. I tried it, and it booted. Whopee.. However the kernel-level-IP
> > configuration (BOOTP) fails!? I'm not really sure why - the DHCP server
> > just gave the IP and kernel-image a moment ago. This make me wonder:
> > how far could I get with this kernel? Is it possible that I could
> > actually boot an entire system with this kernel, or is that pushing it
> > a bit?
>
> It happens to work by accident, because the cachelines destoyed
> due to the speculative stores don't hit anything important. The
> 2.5 kernel fails much earlier.
I recall fixing an IP checksum calculation bug in the 64-bit kernel last
year -- this may possibly be another reason of BOOTP failing (well, it
used to fail for me because of this problem back then).
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