On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > Is the aliasing between R4KBUG & GLOBAL intentional? This is the only CONFIG case where it > > is done. Superficially, I can't see R4KBUG used anywhere, so maybe it doesn't matter. But > > if R4KBUG truly isn't used, why not consider removing it entirely from all PTE layouts? > > It's there for a R4000 bug workaround waiting to be finally written by > somebody ... Possibly doing that in the toolchain may be a reasonable alternative. Actually wasting say 4 last words for nops on every page unconditionally when building for the affected processors may be a good approximation of a workaround for a start. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
