On Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 12:42:15AM +0100, Ulf Carlsson wrote:

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:

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The exact bug is that one of the cache maintenance routines in
include/asm-mips/r4kcache.h uses there wrong cachop for flushing the
cache.

Oh.

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understand what you mean, sorry :)  Well, this is not a big problem for me
anyway. The .68 kernel works. The main problem is the one with the

           
.68 isn't supposed to work.  The memory is laid out such that the buggy
cache routine has a bit less of effect.

Hm, ok. But why is .68 on ftp.linux.sgi.com if it doesn't work, or isn't
even supposed to work?

It's only supposed to fail for your configuration.

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harddrives (detecting them, but with the size of 0Mb, and the kernel can't
read the partition tables), and the one with the kernel paging request it
can't handle. Any ideas? 

Should all be the cache effect.

Doesn't it work for your?

Since I'm doing the thing it will always work for my hardware (hint, hint ...)

I have some questions concerning the MIPS/Linux project. I think the FAQ
on the homepage is obsolete (sorry, you must have answered these questions
100 times by now :)

Is it possible to use MIPS/Linux yet, or is it too buggy? How much of the

It's good for month of uptime.  Some apps are not that reliable.

X code is done? Are any of the SGI special devices, such as the cool
functions on the video card supported yet? Which kernel runs

Linux supports what god wanted to be supported, text mode :-)

linux.sgi.com (this one seems to be quite stable).

It's called IRIX :-)

(And yes, the machine had over half a year uptime.  The IRIX developers on
the list will apreciate your praise :-)

  Ralf