From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:31:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([IPv6:::ffff:12.44.186.158]:25335 "EHLO orion.mvista.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:31:43 +0000 Received: (from jsun@localhost) by orion.mvista.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id i0DMVb529459; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:31:37 -0800 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:31:37 -0800 From: Jun Sun To: Dimitri Torfs Cc: Pete Popov , kph@cisco.com, Linux MIPS mailing list , jsun@mvista.com Subject: Re: How stable is 2.6 on a SB1250 processor? Message-ID: <20040113143137.N11733@mvista.com> References: <1074027809.20636.91.camel@shakedown> <1074028164.21857.120.camel@zeus.mvista.com> <20040113214454.GA2737@sonycom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20040113214454.GA2737@sonycom.com>; from dimitri@sonycom.com on Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:44:54PM +0100 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: 3932 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: jsun@mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:44:54PM +0100, Dimitri Torfs wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:09:25PM -0800, Pete Popov wrote: > > > > I think userland is still broken. Ralf was working on the access_ok > > problem the last time I talked to him. > > > > Yes, if it's a 32-bit kernel then it's definitely broken. You might want > to check out > http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2004-01/msg00000.html. > > After that fix, user space stuff started to work for me. > Yes, that is a temporary fix for the problem. bcm1250 PCI still have issues though. I have not looked into it. What is troubling me most is either rockhopper nor malta works on 2.6. With rockhopper I had to disable cache in order to run. I suspect there is something fundamental still not quite right, possibly only affecting cache noncoherent systems. More debugging fun ... Jun