mleopold@tiscali.dk wrote: > Hi Thiemo. > > The solution is to use a special kernel with compiled in cache barriers > > (needs a not-yet written compiler patch) and careful managing of page > > table accesses from userspace (needs rmap, and thus 2.5 Kernel). > > I noticed this guy talking about O2 and having some patches and precompiled > kernels. Are these in anyway related to what you are talking about? > > http://www.linux-mips.org/~glaurung/ Partially yes, the O2 as a ELF32 machine allows a different (and more performant) solution for the speculative store problem. > > I'm working sowly on it, but I get constantly distracted by toolchain > > issues. :-) > > I looked arround your website and saw "mips64-linux-ip28-2002-06-28.tar.gz" > whoo.. Sounds exiting =] I know it's somewhat outdated. :-) > > > There was some talk in Febuary on a guy got Linux up and running on an > > > Origin 200 - and some bootable cd's. That sounded prety interesting =] > > The Origin is easier to suppot, it has coherent I/O. > > And you are probably going to tell me that this is the same reson that the > O2 is working, right? Only the R5000 O2 is working. The R10000 O2 is the problematic one. > > > Btw: I also got my hands on an Octane (IP30) with an R10000 (195 Mhz) - > > > I haven't tried to install on this one, but that might be interesting too.. > > This one is also I/O coherent, so chances are much better than for IP28. > > Are you saying I might get this one working with the Debian boot-images > that I already tried, or? It might work, but I know way to little about the Octane to say something definitive. Thiemo
