From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3KJJWh04443 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:19:32 -0700 Received: from dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3KJJSM04439 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:19:29 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3KJIKq05664; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:18:20 -0300 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:18:20 -0300 From: Ralf Baechle To: Pete Popov Cc: Florian Lohoff , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Illegal instruction - a workaround or fix ? Message-ID: <20010420161820.B5375@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010311191639.A8587@paradigm.rfc822.org> <20010312122134.B1235@bacchus.dhis.org> <20010312144131.C7715@paradigm.rfc822.org> <3AE0885F.D1A3D26@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AE0885F.D1A3D26@mvista.com>; from ppopov@mvista.com on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:05:03PM -0700 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:05:03PM -0700, Pete Popov wrote: > I'm bringing this up again because none of the related patches on this > topic have been applied to the latest cvs kernel. The patch Florian > refers to above oopses for me as well. This patch below, from Florian, > but updated against the latest cvs kernel, works (at least the few > simple tests I've run do work now). This patch is broken for small negative numbers in the memory. Florian now has a better patch that should be correct. Ralf