Hello All, to prevent it to get lost again, this adds an explanatory comment to the r4000 exception vector init. Thiemo Index: arch/mips/kernel/traps.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/linux/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c,v retrieving revision 1.201 diff -u -p -r1.201 traps.c --- arch/mips/kernel/traps.c 11 Nov 2004 03:06:01 -0000 1.201 +++ arch/mips/kernel/traps.c 20 Nov 2004 16:46:40 -0000 @@ -1026,6 +1027,7 @@ void __init trap_init(void) set_except_vector(24, handle_mcheck); if (cpu_has_vce) + /* Special exception: R4[04]00 uses also the divec space. */ memcpy((void *)(CAC_BASE + 0x180), &except_vec3_r4000, 0x100); else if (cpu_has_4kex) memcpy((void *)(CAC_BASE + 0x180), &except_vec3_generic, 0x80);