On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Which unfortunately is becoming unusable fairly soon on many systems. > IP27: ARC is dead after the first TLB flush. IP22: dead after the > external L2 controller was enabled etc. On average I'm less than > pleased with firmware usability even for simple stuff such as printing ... Broken firmware... For DECstations it works until we wipe out RAM reserved by the firmware, right before running `init'. Which is not firmware's fault, of course, and which I plan to get fixed eventually to be able to access and set firmware environment variables from the userland, to do a proper halt and reboot (with a command), etc. I've not decided whether to rip it away completely or to leave it as a configuration option for these memory starved. You can have 4MB of RAM on some DECstations, you know. Maciej
