Merging 64 bit changes to -HEAD

Jayachandran C. c.jayachandran at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 11:27:51 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Jayachandran C. wrote:
>>> Looks like I was on the wrong track, it now looks like the pagemask
>>> maybe the cause.  My suspicion is that the bootloader setups a
>>> pagemask and we never clear it because all the operations save and
>>> restore the mask. As far as I can see the TLB exception handler will
>>> not update pagemask.
>>>
>>> Juli - any comments on this? Do you need to save/restore pagemask for
>>> some reason, otherwise I will take out the part from tlb.c.  Will send
>>> out a patch a bit later.
>>
>> Okay - here's hopefully the final patch. Let me know if it boots up.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JC.
>> <tlb.c-pagemask-remove.diff>
>
> JC,
>
> This patch boots without any problem, thank you !

At last! :) Thanks for testing.  Will get it approved, will check-in
later today, hopefully.

JC.


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