Hello All, currently the kernel panics when it boots on an unknown CPU model (with an unknown PRID). Based on the assumption that the majority of newly supported CPU will conform to Release 2 standard, I wrote the appended patch which handles unknown CPUs as R2. It isn't completely bulletproof, as (yet unsupported) non-R1/R2 CPUs may use the AT config bits for different purposes. I still think this is good enough a test. This patch allows me to boot Linux on a "generic" MIPS64R2 Qemu without making up a potentially conflicting PRID. All-zeroes like for other undefined fields does fine. Thiemo Signed-Off-By: Thiemo Seufer <ths@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c b/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c index a61246d..82188f2 100644 --- a/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c +++ b/arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c @@ -935,14 +935,6 @@ static __init void build_tlb_write_entry(u32 **p, struct label **l, tlbw(p); break; - case CPU_4KEC: - case CPU_24K: - case CPU_34K: - case CPU_74K: - i_ehb(p); - tlbw(p); - break; - case CPU_RM9000: /* * When the JTLB is updated by tlbwi or tlbwr, a subsequent @@ -982,8 +974,18 @@ static __init void build_tlb_write_entry(u32 **p, struct label **l, break; default: - panic("No TLB refill handler yet (CPU type: %d)", - current_cpu_data.cputype); + /* Panic if this isn't a Release 2 CPU. */ + if (!((read_c0_config() & MIPS_CONF_AT) >> 13)) { + panic("No TLB refill handler yet (CPU type: %d)", + current_cpu_data.cputype); + } + /* fall through */ + case CPU_4KEC: + case CPU_24K: + case CPU_34K: + case CPU_74K: + i_ehb(p); + tlbw(p); break; } }