Subject: Re: "pmap_unwire: wiring ... didn't change!"
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 09/05/2005 19:28:27
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 02:12:35AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > your most recent patch still doesn't work, though.
> > it also hangs before printing the copyright.
> 
> So my patch might have some bugs. I attached a simpler
> patch which just initializes the pagemask register.
> If this patch doesn't work but mipsX_subr.S rev 1.15
> works (at least printing copyright), we have to rethink
> what side-effect was caused by the MachTLBUpdate() change.

this new patch works as well as mipsX_subr.S rev 1.15,
ie. everything is fine until init starts, at which point it crashes
with "reserved instruction in kernel mode".  that's with a GENERIC kernel;
a VR41XX kernel gets "panic: init died".

-Chuck