From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades•com>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, 'Song Sam' <samlinuxppc@yahoo•com.cn>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.x on 8xx status
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:13:53 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041016021353.GA6388@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041015154946.GB3957@logos.cnet>
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:49:46PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:03:29PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 21, 2004, at 7:59 AM, Smith, Craig wrote:
> >
> > >Genius. That patch appears to work for me as well.
> >
> > The fact this works indicates a subtle memory management
> > problem elsewhere. I don't know what that is at this
> > point. This hack is in a piece of generic code that works
> > properly on all other PowerPC cores, so it isn't going to
> > ever appear in the public sources.
> >
> > I suggested this change to a few people hoping the information
> > would lead them to finding the real problem, not that it
> > should be perpetuated as a "fix" to make 8xx work.
> > I don't personally have time to work on this right now,
> > so anyone using 8xx should be looking for the real
> > cause and solution, not using this to create products.
>
> Do you know the real cause Dan ?
>
> As I told you, we are porting our sub-sub-architecture
> to v2.6, and need that bug fixed at some time.
>
> Lots of other people do.
I can try to fix it if you dont have time, do you know what is
wrong and requires fixing? I'm not familiar with low-level PowerPC
memory management, but I can try.
Can you help, or are you planning on fixing this yourself (who
was the necessary knowledge, as soon as time allows) ?
I know Pantelis seems to have necessary knowledge to it. Pantelis?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-16 4:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-21 11:59 Linux 2.6.x on 8xx status Smith, Craig
2004-09-21 11:53 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-09-21 16:54 ` Dan Malek
2004-09-21 17:03 ` Dan Malek
2004-09-22 11:09 ` Sam Song
2004-10-15 15:49 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-16 2:13 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-10-16 9:08 ` Sam Song
2004-10-18 5:59 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-10-18 6:22 ` Sam Song
2004-10-18 3:10 ` Dan Malek
2005-02-10 15:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-10 19:26 ` Dan Malek
2005-02-10 17:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-10 17:08 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-03-21 21:45 ` Guillaume Autran
2005-03-21 21:53 ` Robert P. J. Day
2005-03-22 13:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-03-22 20:57 ` Dan Malek
2005-03-22 17:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-03-22 22:53 ` Dan Malek
2005-03-23 10:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-03-23 16:12 ` Dan Malek
2005-03-23 16:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-03-24 14:05 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-03-23 14:06 ` Guillaume Autran
2005-02-11 3:42 ` Dan Malek
2005-02-21 21:12 ` Armin Schindler
2005-02-21 23:45 ` Guillaume Autran
2005-02-15 9:39 ` Reading of RTC robin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-22 11:20 Linux 2.6.x on 8xx status Joakim Tjernlund
2004-10-25 15:00 Sam Song
2004-09-17 13:57 Smith, Craig
2004-09-17 13:50 ` Pantelis Antoniou
[not found] <20040916201505.E723B2BDB2@ozlabs.org>
2004-09-17 10:06 ` Song Sam
2004-09-17 9:55 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-09-18 20:11 ` Song Sam
2004-09-20 6:02 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-09-20 11:47 ` Song Sam
2004-09-20 17:49 ` Tom Rini
2004-09-20 18:02 ` Robert P. J. Day
2004-09-20 18:17 ` Tom Rini
2004-09-21 1:38 ` Song Sam
2004-09-21 6:12 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-09-21 10:35 ` Song Sam
2004-09-21 10:41 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-10-15 15:47 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-16 18:56 Smith, Craig
2004-09-16 20:07 ` Dan Malek
2004-09-17 5:43 ` Pantelis Antoniou
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