rm7k_wait_irqoff patch doesn't seem to improve the things for illegal instructions for E9k core. But many customers have reported that they do get illegal instruction when ICACHE_REFILLS_WORKAROUND_WAR is not enabled. Thanks Sagar -----Original Message----- From: linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ralf Baechle Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:23 PM To: Steve Graham Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: O2 RM7000 Issues On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:04:52PM -0700, Steve Graham wrote: > I am having a similar problem where complicated bash scripts on boot > randomly throw SIGILL. I am running on a PMC MSP8510 platform - E9000 > core. I have applied the patch to "war.h" mentioned in this thread > and that did greatly reduce the number of occurences of this problem > but has not fixed it. I was getting at least 2 illegal instructions > every boot and now I can boot without any problems about 90% of the time. > > Does the patch you mention below apply to the E9000 core as well? Not to my knowledge - but I'm lacking any halfwayrecent errata information for the RM9000 series, maybe somebody from PMC can jump in? Ralf
