From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:49:32 +0100 (BST) Received: from mx01.qsc.de ([IPv6:::ffff:213.148.129.14]:52438 "EHLO mx01.qsc.de") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:49:15 +0100 Received: from port-195-158-167-225.dynamic.qsc.de ([195.158.167.225] helo=hattusa.textio) by mx01.qsc.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1EAUvt-0007JX-00; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:55:25 +0200 Received: from ths by hattusa.textio with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EAUvu-0005WE-Ht; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:55:26 +0200 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:55:26 +0200 To: Ralf Baechle Cc: "Stephen P. Becker" , 'Linux/MIPS Development' Subject: Re: compiling kernel 2.6.13 Message-ID: <20050831155526.GW21717@hattusa.textio> References: <200508311459.47273.djd20@kent.ac.uk> <20050831150256.GC3377@linux-mips.org> <4315CD1C.80203@gentoo.org> <20050831153509.GF3377@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050831153509.GF3377@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i From: Thiemo Seufer 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: 8844 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: ths@networkno.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:30:36AM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > > >Daring. Hardly anybody is using EISA on that machine and even less so on > > >64-bit, expect to find bugs. > > > > Furthermore, 64-bit kernels are somewhat broken on ip22 right now. > > Something is wrong with memory allocation, and it really screws a lot of > > things up. Off the top of my head, you won't be able to turn on swap, > > mount a ricerfs partition, or dd large blocks from /dev/zero. You would > > be much better of sticking with 32-bit at this time. > > But that seems an IP22-specific problem. I _think_ it hits every 64bit kernel which uses mappings in CKSEG0. Do you know a system where this works? Thiemo