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From: Sergey Rogozhkin <rogozhkin@niisi.msk.ru>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Linux MIPS List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
	"Gleb O. Raiko" <raiko@niisi.msk.ru>, Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: O2 RM7000 Issues
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:04:00 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469C8600.7090208@niisi.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070704192208.GA7873@linux-mips.org>


> Big loud bell began ringing.  The RM7000 fetches and decodes multiple
> instructions in one go.  And just like the E9000 cores it does
> throw an exception if it doesn't like one of the opcodes even if that
> doesn't actually get executed.  The kernel has a workaround for this
> PMC-Sierra peculiarity (I call it a bug) but it's only being activated
> for E9000 platforms.

Are you really sure RM7000 has this bug? Workaround mentioned above 
breaks gcc signal frame unwinding mechanism: it search for sigcontext 
struct at fixed offset from signal trampoline.

And one another known RM7000 bug, maybe not taken into account by linux: 
errata 38. r4k_wait is not suitable for RM7000 on some systems. I don't 
know if "O2" is affected.

Sergey Rogozhkin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-17  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-01 16:57 O2 RM7000 Issues Kumba
2007-07-01 22:07 ` freshy98
2007-07-02 13:08   ` sknauert
2007-07-02 13:08   ` sknauert
2007-07-04 15:27     ` Ralf Baechle
2007-07-04 19:22       ` Ralf Baechle
2007-07-16 11:53         ` Sergey Rogozhkin
2007-07-16 12:33           ` Ralf Baechle
2007-07-16 17:38             ` Andrew Sharp
2007-07-17 14:01               ` Kumba
2007-07-19 18:58                 ` Andrew Sharp
2007-07-19 22:26                   ` Shane McDonald
2007-07-17  7:54             ` Gleb O. Raiko
2007-07-17  9:04         ` Sergey Rogozhkin [this message]
2007-07-17 10:14           ` Ralf Baechle
2007-07-17 12:27           ` Ralf Baechle
2007-09-17 23:04             ` Steve Graham
2007-09-18  8:52               ` Ralf Baechle
2007-09-17 23:20             ` David Daney
2007-09-18  8:47               ` Ralf Baechle
2007-07-02 14:34 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-09-21  6:27 ` Sagar Borikar
2007-09-21 13:47   ` Ralf Baechle
2007-09-22  3:20     ` Steve Graham
2007-09-24 11:58       ` Ralf Baechle
2007-09-26 17:06         ` Steve Graham

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