Re: 24K malta

[Greg Weeks <greg.weeks@timesys.com>]

Ralf Baechle wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:40:36AM -0400, Greg Weeks wrote:
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>>I'm seeing something strange on a 24K malta and I'm wondering if anyone 
>>else has ran into something like it.
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>>This is a 2.6.12 based kernel. I've not had a chance to try the current 
>>CVS yet. The last time I checked the current CVS didn't boot as is on a 
>>4Kc malta so I've not been keeping current with CVS.
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>>When I try a simple
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>>strace ls
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>>I either hang or seg fault on a 24Kc or 24Kec processor, but a 4Kc or 
>>4Kec works. If I turn off the cache on the 24K it works as well. Without 
>>cache it's unbearably slow of course. This is the same exact build of 
>>the kernel and root file system for all boards.
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>I cannot reproduce this problem on 24KEc Malta, sorry.
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What patch are you using to get current CVS to boot on a malta? I've 
been disabling prefetch in memcpy, but if you're doing something else I 
want to try that. About 1 out of 3 "strace ls" either hangs or seg 
faults on me still.

Greg Weeks