Subject: Re: MIPS Magnum 4000-PC fails to boot
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
From: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
List: port-arc
Date: 11/09/2000 19:02:21
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:53:28AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <20001109184743.A2873@gnyf.wheel.dk> "Soren S. Jorvang" writes:
> : On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:37:01AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> : > We don't use them because we wire the tlb early in the boot proces and
> : > that blows away the access to them.
> : 
> : Of course, MIPS firmware that uses KSEG2 is horribly borked..
> 
> IIRC, my deskstation's firmware is in kseg2, but it has been a long
> time since I looked.  The blowing away of the tlb and therefore the
> BIOS goes back to Per Folgelstrom's involvement with the pica port.

I guess it would be useful to have a collection of TLB state output
by e.g. arcdiag from the various /arc machines.


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Soren