> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Peter Horton > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:53 AM > To: wuming > Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: problems on D-cache alias in 2.4.22 > > > wuming wrote: > ... > > at last, when I replaced flush_page_to_ram( ) with > flush_dcache_page( ), > > the internal compiler error disappeared. > > ... > > This is probably just hiding your problem. flush_page_to_ram() is not > used anymore. > > P. > > Changing that same place also fixes my problem. However, I came across the mips cobalt patches and after applying a variation of the IDE cache fix from there, that also fixes the problem. So it would seem that this is the same problem as already fixed in the cobalt patch, but showing up on non-cobalt hardware. flush_page_to_ram() was made useless around the release of 2.4.21. I suspect that this was broken at that time, seeing how it is broken in 2.4.22 and 2.4.26. From browsing the debian-mips mailing list archives, it appears that they have not had a stable mips kernel since 2.4.19, could this bug be the cause? Are the recent Debian mips kernels still unstable? Would anyone with an unstable 2.4.2x kernel be willing to try one of the attached patches to see if the situation improves? Bob
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