Subject: Re: 1.6_STABLE / macppc, recent pte.h and pmap.c changes
To: Markus W Kilbinger <kilbi@rad.rwth-aachen.de>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/26/2002 07:34:28
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:26:55AM +0100, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
> >>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com> writes:
> 
>     >> >> on my powermac 4400 and beige g3 recent
>     >> >> 
>     >> >> sys/arch/powerpc/include/mpc6xx/pte.h           1.9
>     >> >> sys/arch/powerpc/mpc6xx/pmap.c                  1.51
>     >> >> 
>     >> >> produce a
>     >> >> 
>     >> >> Illegal instruction - core dumped
> 
>     Chuck> hmm, well, since I can't test 1.6 kernels anymore, I'll
>     Chuck> have to lean on you a bit. could you try a kernel with
>     Chuck> those two revisions reverted?
> 
> I did, now I have the previous revisions:
> 
>   sys/arch/powerpc/include/mpc6xx/pte.h		1.8
>   sys/arch/powerpc/mpc6xx/pmap.c		1.43.4.2
> 
>     Chuck> if that works, I'll submit a pullup request to revert them
>     Chuck> in the 1.6 branch as well.
> 
> ... and everything seems to be running fine again.

great.


> What about the Charles Hannum's rev. 1.55 hint?

the syncicache stuff has been busted in -current for a long time now,
so it seems unwise to me to try to pull any of those changes into
the release branch until they've been seen to work by many people
in -current for a while.

-Chuck