From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3AB9CAE4.F92F3A6B@inn.ericsson.se> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:50:28 +0100 From: Kenneth Johansson MIME-Version: 1.0 To: frowand@mvista.com Cc: Dan Malek , Matthias Fuchs , linuxppc-embedded , frank@esd-electronics.com Subject: Re: possible problem in memory management References: <3AB8B894.1C5FCD37@esd-electronics.com> <3AB9148A.7F25E9A0@mvista.com> <3AB9254E.FE13F585@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Frank Rowand wrote: > > Dan Malek wrote: > > > > Matthias Fuchs wrote: > > > > > CPU: IBM PowerPC 405GP Rev. C at 198 MHz (PLB=99, OPB=49, EBC=33 MHz) > > > > Get yourself an up to date Rev. D CPU. The Rev. C workarounds in > > the kernel were reasonable attempts, but probably aren't complete. > > Dan is correct. We did not do an exhaustive scan of the kernel to add > workarounds in all places they might be necesary, just enough to make the > kernel fairly stable and usable. Even in the places where the workarounds > are in place, they are not guaranteed to be 100% effective. But I do think there is a memory bug inte the version of the kernel he is using. I can produce a error state at will running debian (potato) on that kernel. Running emacs or simply login over telnet puts it into that state. I currently is not working to resolv the problem so I don't have more infomation than that it fails, sorry. -- Kenneth Johansson Ericsson Business Innovation AB Tel: +46 8 404 71 83 Viderögatan 3 Fax: +46 8 404 72 72 164 80 Stockholm kenneth.johansson@inn.ericsson.se ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/