On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:06:00AM +0200, Paul Kranenburg wrote:
> > Well, if you manage to install it, it still won't work too well, due
> > to the cache flush problem of those old Sparcs.  :-(
> 
> That issue has been resolved just a few weeks ago. An update for the 1.6
> branch has been scheduled.

Excellent!

> In fact, it wasn't a cache flush problem after all, but a race condition
> in the MMU management code.

I _thought_ it might be a software bug.. and I was hoping for it ;-)

> Other MMU resouce management related problems may still surface on these
> machines, such as the "all pmegs are gone" panic that has been reported
> several times already.

Hmm.. :-I  Well, I'll update the kernels on my SS1's as soon as the fix
is ported to 1.6.1 and report the results.

Glad I didn't throw away the Sparcs yet. :-)

  -jm