On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:31:41PM -0400, Marc Karasek wrote: > The way to see this bug is just try to compile the MIPS kernel (either > 2.4.1 or 2.4.3) as follows: > > 1) make distclean > 2) copy linux/arch/mips/defconfig-malta linux/.config > 3) make oldconfig > 4) make menuconfig > 5) change the endianess from little to big > 6) make dep > 7) make zImage > That is a kernel bug. The code only works on littl endian by accident Here is a patch. H.J. --- arch/mips/mips-boards/generic/time.c.int64 Tue Jul 24 13:21:21 2001 +++ arch/mips/mips-boards/generic/time.c Tue Jul 24 13:22:02 2001 @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ void __init time_init(void) /* This is for machines which generate the exact clock. */ #define USECS_PER_JIFFY (1000000/HZ) -#define USECS_PER_JIFFY_FRAC (0x100000000*1000000/HZ&0xffffffff) +#define USECS_PER_JIFFY_FRAC ((long) (0x100000000*1000000/HZ&0xffffffff)) /* Cycle counter value at the previous timer interrupt.. */
