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From: "Mitch Lichtenberg" <mpl@broadcom.com>
To: "Ken Giusti" <manwithastinkydog@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: running 2.6 on swarm pass1
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:18:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40A901DD.80308@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040517150631.13795.qmail@web13301.mail.yahoo.com>

Ken,

Pass1 BCM1250's have enough problems that it's no surprise
that things don't work anymore.    Most of the workarounds
to CPU core issues are deliberately not checked into the external
(linux-mips) tree, and some require some nasty toolchain
hacks (for example, taking exceptions on the instruction
in a branch delay slot is perilous).

I don't know how you got your SWARM, but you might want to
press for getting a new one.  No pass1's were ever shipped
in volume, so it would be best to NOT support it.

/Mitch.


Ken Giusti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a swarm board with a pass1 sibyte sb1250. 
> Here's the relevant system info from the boot up
> console:
> 
<<snip>>

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-17 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-17 15:06 running 2.6 on swarm pass1 Ken Giusti
2004-05-17 18:18 ` Mitch Lichtenberg [this message]
2004-05-18  0:16 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-05-18 16:57   ` Ken Giusti

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