On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:22:01PM -0800, Nathan Field wrote: > > There are too many things related to cache are wrong in 2.4.17. For > > example, > > > > . flush_page_indexed() is not right for multi-way cache > > . when you map user pages into kernel, you are sufferring potential cache > > aliasing problem (BTW, we still suffer from this right now to a less degree) > > . flush_page_to_ram() has a broken semantic, because it is not clear whether > > the area mapped into user virt spaces should be flushed or not > > ... > > > > In short, it is not worth your time to fix old bugs. Last time I > > checked malta was working fine around 2.4.21. It shouldn't be too hard > > to get it working again in the latest 2.4 branch. > Is this the 2.4.21 from ftp.kernel.org, or do I need to get > specific patches to get it to work? I looked at the cvs tree but it's > currently a 2.6 release. Should I just check out the linux_2_4_branch > version from linux-mips.org? > Yes. "linux_2_4" branch to be exact. Jun
