RE: MMU problems?

The things work better on our board now. The main problem, with 8xx kernel
patches are spread everywhere, and kernel like mpc8xx contains
a lot of useless changes that make the changes difficult to resync with the
main
serie. Kernel like 2.2.16 works properly and reliably on PPC7xx and PPC6xx
processors,
with a lot of PCI drivers functionnal now. I think the main effort will be
to resync 8xx kernels
with the standard ones. Now I have a patched 2.2.16 kernel that seems to
work on our board. Complex operations like compiling a kernel
take hours to complete on a 8xx board, and the bugs seems to have a low
probability.

(With the classic mpc8xx kernel, the system crash after only 20 minutes
while compiling
a kernel)

I have some success with theses kernel now, but I'm not sure if some bugs
remains, testing this system takes now hours... And this is quite
undebugable...

Patrick LERDA

-----Message d'origine-----
De:	Dan Malek [SMTP:dan@netx4.com]
Date:	jeudi 22 juin 2000 17:58
À:	Patrick Lerda
Cc:	Nguyen Xuan Hoang; linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Objet:	Re: MMU problems?

Patrick Lerda wrote:

quoted

Have you tried to do complex operation on a 8xx board like compiling the
kernel.

Yes, and it runs just like any other system that doesn't have any
swap space and a minimal amount of memory.  Some things just don't
work well, and applications fail because few test for memory allocation
failure.

Are there bugs?  Perhaps.  Do I want them fixed?  Yes.

Do you want to help this FREE software effort?  If you are so sure
there is an MMU bug, find it, fix it, and send me the patch.  We would
all be grateful.  If you want dedicated help to assist your custom
product development so you can make money, you may have to pay one
of the very capable embedded Linux companies for this attention.

Thanks.


	-- Dan

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