On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 09:25:11PM +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > > Is this a hardware issue prefetching issue? The kernel should not try > > CPU prefetch instructions at all on non-coherent CPUs such as the > > BCM47xx. > > This is a hardware issue on the bcm47xx when 128MB ram is present. This > workaround is out of broadcom's kernel sources and is included in > OpenWRT for some months. Without this patch the kernel does not even > print out anything and with this patch it is working. Thanks! I was asking to ensure this isn't a workaround for an already solved kernel software issue. Patch applied, Ralf
