[parisc-linux] Re: [parisc-linux-cvs] linux-2.6 jejb

[M. Grabert]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Randolph Chung wrote:

> > > Move to 8 byte Page Table Entries for 32 bit kernels.  This allows us
> > > to recover sixteen flag bits (the sixteen bits at the top of the pte for
> > > 64 bit - 48 address bits is pretty unlikely to be hit soon) on both 32
> > > and 64 bits.
>
> jejb, this seems to have broken the kernel for me. On my c3750, -pa9
> doesn't boot (-pa7 is ok). With -pa9 the machine HPMC's very early
> during boot (i have early debug turned on, but there was no console
> output).

I tried -pa8 yesterday (32bit) on my C3000, and it also HPMCs straight
after the 'if this is the last message ...' output.

At first I thought it was related to the palo-1.4 bug, so I reinstalled
palo-1.3, but this didn't solve the problem.

> perhaps this is sensitive to amount of physical memory in the system? i
> have 1.5GB in my system.

1GB here.


Thanks,
  Max