Re: kernel panic on IP32 R12000

[Luc Pernot <lpernot%magma.ca@localhost>]

yes I think so because I switched the netbsd kernell fie with generic 
ip32 kernell one and every thing work's
i'm installing the X set right now... and when i restarted sysinst
and whent in install additionnal sets it was saying yes to ip2x kernel 
...? Luc.

Stephen M. Rumble wrote:

> Quoting Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:01:38AM -0500, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> >
> > > Is the R12k really /that/ different from the R10k?
> > > The panic was about cache support, the R10k code might just work here.
> >
> >
> > Besides the early "cache not supported" panic, which does not happen on
> > R10k, the cpu is not realy better supported - on my R10k O2 I get a
> > panic as soon as something uses dma (not quite unexpected). A simple
> > "ping" is enough.
>
>
> Looking at the code, regardless of whether the R12k support is broken  
> or not, this panic shouldn't be happening with GENERIC32_IP3x, no? It  
> looks like `ENABLE_MIPS4_CACHE_R10K' is in the config and should  
> handle R10000, R12000 and R14000 cases.
>
> I think somebody reported this a while back and I suspected they were  
> running the wrong kernel (maybe GENERIC_IP2x). Perhaps our installer  
> is not choosing the appropriate one by default...
>
> Steve