On Fri, 2002-02-22 17:37:56 +0100, Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de> wrote in message <[🔎] 20020222173756.A507@excalibur.cologne.de>: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 05:43:48PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:46:57PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > Well, I've now compiled my own kernel (linux_2_4) with the toolchain I > > > found on oss.sgi.com. It's quite _a lot_ more stable now. Maybe the > > > boot-floppy guys would like to use a different kernel for boot-up? > > > > I have looked through the Linux/MIPS cvs logs - Ralf has done > > modifications to the R3k cache handling a few days ago. I am > > currently building a current cvs kernel and will build new > > boot-floppies with it. > > A recompile of 3.0.19 with a current Linux/MIPS cvs snapshot is available > for testing at > ftp://bolugftp.uni-bonn.de/pub/mipsel-linux/woody-bootfloppies/bf-3.0.19-recompile-unofficial > This is mostly untested due to time constraints on my part (I have only > booted it and tried whether the menu works on a 5000/150). Could you try > it on your R3k machines? It *will* fail. R3k needs a little patch to ./include/asm-mips/pgtable.h to successfully handle swap access. Otherwise, the kernel will Oops in seconds:-( MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw . jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 -- New APT-Proxy written in shell script -- http://lug-owl.de/~jbglaw/software/ap2/
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