Re: 2.3.46 Boot Failure

From: Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2000 - 15:50:04 EST


On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 10:07:45PM +0100, Gerard Roudier wrote:
> Hmmm... Let this `slotting' be a bit smarter in some later chip and issue
> will come again.

Yes, perhaps. Moving the thing out of line and adding a lot of
nops would solve this, but the out of line solution results in
a larger kernel, so I will avoid addressing this until the ev8
(or whatever) actually breaks something.

> Btw, how does this trick victimize the BOGOMIPS result?

It leaves it at the higher number. ;-)

r~

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