Embedded 8xx 2.2.5 kernel tarball

[Alexander Larsson]

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Dan Malek wrote:

> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > I just merged my local changes with the 2.2.5-embedded sources.
> > I get an error when starting init. (Booting from nfs.)
> >
> > It just says:
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k init
> > put_dirty_page: page already exists
> 
> Ummm.....it would help if I knew a little more about what you are using.
> Like, what kind of board and the kernel configuration?
> 
> I would see a similar problem when I would configure IDE and not
> configure PCI.  This is because the IDE probes (and other I/O in/out
> operations) map to real memory locations and tend to write on top of
> kernel data structures.  This is my only guess without more information.

I found it. The new version had a nifty clear_page that did datacache
tricks to clear memory. This fails splendidly when the datacache is
disabled, which i had due to some hw problems.

It works great now!

/ Alex



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