From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:51:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from eth13.com-link.com ([IPv6:::ffff:208.242.241.164]:36269 "EHLO real.realitydiluted.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:51:39 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=realitydiluted.com) by real.realitydiluted.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AoneB-0000TU-00; Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:50:39 -0600 Message-ID: <40228235.6050403@realitydiluted.com> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 12:49:41 -0500 From: "Steven J. Hill" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Markus Dahms CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Indy R4000PC problems References: <20040202160729.GA5966@fh-brandenburg.de> In-Reply-To: <20040202160729.GA5966@fh-brandenburg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 4291 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: sjhill@realitydiluted.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Markus Dahms wrote: > > I had problems getting the 2.4 kernel to work on an Indy with > a R4000PC (100MHz) processor (very old PROM, too). > The solution I found yesterday is to change an entry in > arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c from CPU_R4000SC to CPU_R4000PC. > Is there a reason why only the SC version is thought to be > there, or is it believed to be compatible? > The SC stands for secondary cache. So one would expect that if your Indy only has a primary cache (PC) and you are detecting as an Indy with SC, you will crash since there is no secondary cache. -Steve