On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:59:31PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <20050906022827.GA17648@spathi.chuq.com>
> chuq@chuq.com wrote:
> 
> > 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;
> 
> Ok, there are several reports that "initializing pagemask" patch fixes
> boot problems, I'll commit the attached patch.

looks good to me.


> Note there is another report that pagemask is 0x0 on a kernel booted
> from pbsdboot on CE 2.11, but if the kernel is booted from pbsdboot
> on CE 3.0, pagemask is 0x1800. Maybe that's the reason why not all
> people have the same problem on VR41xx based hpcmips machines.

ah, that makes sense.

thanks,
-Chuck