On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:12:46AM -0400, Chuck Meade wrote: > I am seeing a very interesting/worrisome bug on an RM7965 cpu, which has > an E9000 core. I am running 2.6.14-rc1. Please take a look at the > behavior I describe and send me your thoughts. Thanks. Well, 2.6.14-rc1. The -rc1 part says it already. While the rc may stand for release candidate, they -rc1 kernels are definatly far from ready for a release. All the new features for the 2.6.14 but hardly any of the fixes. I really suggest you go either for 2.6.13 or upgrade to 2.6.14. Talking about upgrading, 2.6.16.1 is a good vintage for MIPS so far. Aside of this more general warning about -rc but especially -rc1 kernels I think the remainder of your analysis is correct ... Ralf