On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > > I looked arround your website and saw > > > > "mips64-linux-ip28-2002-06-28.tar.gz" > > > > whoo.. Sounds exiting =] > > > I know it's somewhat outdated. :-) > > > > Hehe.. I tried it, and it booted. Whopee.. However the kernel-level-IP > > configuration (BOOTP) fails!? I'm not really sure why - the DHCP server > > just gave the IP and kernel-image a moment ago. This make me wonder: > > how far could I get with this kernel? Is it possible that I could > > actually boot an entire system with this kernel, or is that pushing it > > a bit? > > It happens to work by accident, because the cachelines destoyed > due to the speculative stores don't hit anything important. The > 2.5 kernel fails much earlier. I recall fixing an IP checksum calculation bug in the 64-bit kernel last year -- this may possibly be another reason of BOOTP failing (well, it used to fail for me because of this problem back then). -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
