Re: bootfloppies on DECstation 5000/125

[Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 06:16:24PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

[boot-floppies showing crashes on MIPS R3000-based 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:-(

I have built current CVS boot-floppies with a current Linux/MIPS CVS
kernel (including Ralf's R3k-cache handling changes and Maciej's version 
of the pagetable-patch). Could you please test it on your R3k-based 
machines?

The build is available at

ftp://bolugftp.uni-bonn.de/pub/mipsel-linux/woody-bootfloppies/bf-pre3.0.21cvs20020306[.packed]/

Regards,
Karsten
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