On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:08:20AM +0100, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > I have just tried your test on a 4Kc and I see no problems. > However I'm running on our internal kernel sources, and as Kevin mention we have > changed a fixed a few things in this area. > As Kevin also mention it sure look more like a I-cache invalidation problem, > rather than a D-cache flush problem, as the 4Kc has a write-through cache. > One think you could try, is our latest kernel release. You can find it here: > ftp://ftp.mips.com/pub/linux/mips/kernel/2.4/images/ > Yes, the problem still exists with this kernel. Try to move the source tree to /root/, rename top dir to "try18", re-make the binary, and try again. This problem is tricky to reproduce. The location of the tree definitely matters. I am testing 32bit LE version. Have not tried BE. I think I have pinned down the problem. See my other follow-up posting. Jun