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From: Frank Smith <smith@amirix.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] RE: Virtex-II Pro and Instruction Prefetching
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:05:38 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <03Jun14.125612adt.7305@dragon.appliedmicro.ns.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030614153555.70C72C5FD7@atlas.denx.de>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wd at denx.de [mailto:wd at denx.de]

> > there's a bug in cpu/ppc4xx/start.S I've pointed out previously that
> > nobody has rendered an opinion on as of yet :-)
> 
> You mean the STD_EXCEPTION vs. CRIT_EXCEPTION ?
> 
> I am waiting for Stefan to pick this up :-)
> 
> But actually it should not matter at all: your code is never supposed
> to run into such an exception.  If  it's  crashing  anyway  there  is
> little difference if it's crashing "correctly" or not ;-)

The problem with it crashing incorrectly is that the Oops message 
lies to you, as it's reporting the contents of SRR0/SRR1, not SRR2/SRR3 
as it should be for a critical exception. Makes it more difficult to
debug when you think the wrong instruction is causing the exception.

Thanks,
-Frank.
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-14 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-14 12:27 [U-Boot-Users] Virtex-II Pro and Instruction Prefetching Frank Smith
2003-06-14 12:48 ` Robert Schwebel
2003-06-14 13:45 ` [U-Boot-Users] " Wolfgang Denk
2003-06-14 14:04   ` Frank Smith
2003-06-14 15:35     ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-06-14 16:05       ` Frank Smith [this message]
2003-06-16  9:45         ` [U-Boot-Users] " Stefan Roese
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-16 15:52 Kerl, John

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