From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4087EBAD.1070803@kegel.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:58:37 -0700 From: Dan Kegel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Blakeslee Cc: "'linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org'" , "'etux@embeddedtux.org'" Subject: Re: good learning experience for Linux References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Steven Blakeslee wrote: > I sent a message earlier today about getting a "swap_dup: Bad swap file > entry 0e18d55c" error. I found the problem and fixed it and wanted to share > it with people who are still learning this stuff, like myself. > > After 2 days of pounding on my head I found the file > Documentation/powerpc/cpu_features.txt It explained how the file > arch/ppc/kernel/cputable.c has a list of the known powerPC PVRs(processor > version register). The 8248 was not in there so it was using a default > entry. That was the cause of my problems. I added a new entry for the 8248 > and all is working. My lesson was a little research makes things much > nicer. Lesson learned. So, is this already in the latest kernel sources? If not, have you considered sending in a patch? - Dan -- My technical stuff: http://kegel.com My politics: see http://www.misleader.org for examples of why I'm for regime change ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/