Re: running 2.6 on swarm pass1

["Mitch Lichtenberg" <mpl@broadcom.com>]

Ken,

Pass1 BCM1250's have enough problems that it's no surprise
that things don't work anymore.    Most of the workarounds
to CPU core issues are deliberately not checked into the external
(linux-mips) tree, and some require some nasty toolchain
hacks (for example, taking exceptions on the instruction
in a branch delay slot is perilous).

I don't know how you got your SWARM, but you might want to
press for getting a new one.  No pass1's were ever shipped
in volume, so it would be best to NOT support it.

/Mitch.


Ken Giusti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a swarm board with a pass1 sibyte sb1250. 
> Here's the relevant system info from the boot up
> console:
<<snip>>