From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Smith Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:05:38 -0300 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] RE: Virtex-II Pro and Instruction Prefetching In-Reply-To: <20030614153555.70C72C5FD7@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: <03Jun14.125612adt.7305@dragon.appliedmicro.ns.ca> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de > -----Original Message----- > From: wd at denx.de [mailto:wd at denx.de] > > there's a bug in cpu/ppc4xx/start.S I've pointed out previously that > > nobody has rendered an opinion on as of yet :-) > > You mean the STD_EXCEPTION vs. CRIT_EXCEPTION ? > > I am waiting for Stefan to pick this up :-) > > But actually it should not matter at all: your code is never supposed > to run into such an exception. If it's crashing anyway there is > little difference if it's crashing "correctly" or not ;-) The problem with it crashing incorrectly is that the Oops message lies to you, as it's reporting the contents of SRR0/SRR1, not SRR2/SRR3 as it should be for a critical exception. Makes it more difficult to debug when you think the wrong instruction is causing the exception. Thanks, -Frank. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.488 / Virus Database: 287 - Release Date: 6/5/03