From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 17 May 2004 19:22:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([IPv6:::ffff:63.70.210.58]:57863 "EHLO mms1.broadcom.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 May 2004 19:22:48 +0100 Received: from 63.70.210.1 by mms1.broadcom.com with ESMTP (Broadcom SMTP Relay (MMS v5.6.0)); Mon, 17 May 2004 11:20:40 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: 97B92932-364A-4474-92D6-5CFE9C59AD14 Received: from mail-sj1-1.sj.broadcom.com (mail-sj1-1.sj.broadcom.com [10.16.128.231]) by mon-irva-11.broadcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA14837; Mon, 17 May 2004 11:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from broadcom.com ([10.21.2.22]) by mail-sj1-1.sj.broadcom.com (8.12.9/8.12.4/SSM) with ESMTP id i4HIKcLn005472; Mon, 17 May 2004 11: 20:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <40A901DD.80308@broadcom.com> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:18:05 -0700 From: "Mitch Lichtenberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ken Giusti" cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: running 2.6 on swarm pass1 References: <20040517150631.13795.qmail@web13301.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040517150631.13795.qmail@web13301.mail.yahoo.com> X-WSS-ID: 6CB7DDF21NG7203616-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 5052 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: mpl@broadcom.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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: > <>