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From: "William J. Earl" <wje@fir.engr.sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: after the kernel seems to live
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Robert Keller writes:
 > At 12:46 AM 5/28/99 +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
 > >The R5000 is supported and known to work.  You happen to have a
 > >second level cache on that board?
 > 
 > how convinced are people that the VR5000 is supported?  I'm running
 > the latest code off the linux.sgi.com cvs server and I'm getting *very*
 > weird page faulting problems when doing the kernel/user space 
 > hazard shuffle.  Its really hard to describe the problems as they are
 > not deterministic:  sometimes the right thing happens, other times 
 > I get restricted instruction exceptions...  Both of these can happen on
 > the very same kernel binary...

        What sort of system are you using, and what is the hardware configuration
(including caches)?