I will patch and give this a try... prob will not be until Thursday or Friday.. On 24 Jul 2001 13:25:34 -0700, H . J . Lu wrote: > 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.. */ > -- /************************* Marc Karasek Sr. Firmware Engineer iVivity Inc. marc_karasek@ivivity.com (770) 986-8925 (770) 986-8926 Fax *************************/
