From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:23:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:53961 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20039502AbWKHTX6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:23:58 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA8JOMsf008430; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:24:23 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id kA8JOKeG008429; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:24:20 GMT Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:24:20 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Trevor Hamm Cc: "'Atsushi Nemoto'" , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Problems booting Linux 2.6.18.1 on MIPS34K core Message-ID: <20061108192420.GA8080@linux-mips.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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: 13164 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: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:09:37AM -0800, Trevor Hamm wrote: > So just for fun, I built a linux image to use a write-through caching policy, and it boots from power-up every time. > > With this information, I would conclude the problem is due to cache management, either in the way we're initializing the cache, or something else in the squashfs code. Or is there another explanation that I'm overlooking? Does your processor have cache aliases? Ralf