Re: Linux 2.6.x on 8xx status

[Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:03:29PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> 
> On Sep 21, 2004, at 7:59 AM, Smith, Craig wrote:
> 
> >Genius. That patch appears to work for me as well.
> 
> The fact this works indicates a subtle memory management
> problem elsewhere.  I don't know what that is at this
> point.  This hack is in a piece of generic code that works
> properly on all other PowerPC cores, so it isn't going to
> ever appear in the public sources.
> 
> I suggested this change to a few people hoping the information
> would lead them to finding the real problem, not that it
> should be perpetuated as a "fix" to make 8xx work.
> I don't personally have time to work on this right now,
> so anyone using 8xx should be looking for the real
> cause and solution, not using this to create products.

Do you know the real cause Dan ?

As I told you, we are porting our sub-sub-architecture 
to v2.6, and need that bug fixed at some time.

Lots of other people do.