On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:40:22AM +0530, Rishabh@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: First, fix your mailer setup, it's littering emails with extra carriage returns. > I have been working on HIGHMEM fixation for 2.4.20 linux MVL kernel for > MIPS architecture. > I am getting DATA BUS ERROR(ADDR: 0xffffd000) exception when loading > (copying the data received from ethernet to the kernel space in FIXADDR > SPACE) "/sbin/init" from TARGET ROOT DIR (through NFS). I figured out > that this is because there is no corresponding page table entry for the > same. That does not make sense. If you don't have a pagetable entry the CPU will take a TLB reload exception. If the entry is invalid, the kernel will die with an oops. A bus error has different causes. Ralf
