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Re: Kernel Panic installing on SGI Indy



On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:53:17PM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> You're getting this error message for the attempt to run a 64-bit kernel
> on certain very old R4000 revisions.  So either run a 32-bit kernel,
> switch to newer version of the R4000 or to another MIPS CPU.  For a
> processor with just 8k caches switching to a 32-bit kernel is a good
> idea to get best performance but we should probably enable the R4000
> workaround automatically in Kconfig for 64-bit Indy kernels.

isn't there a gcc needed, which supports all workarounds ? What about
the performance impact of that workarounds ?

Thomas.

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