Help booting MBX through bootd

[Heinz Blaettner]

On 11-Jun-99 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> The fact that the cache magic in sysdeps/powerpc/memset.S in glibc
>> will make the dynamic linker crash in it's early startup phase is
>> quite a big problem... ;)
>> Also sysdeps/powerpc/dl-machine.c makes an assumption about the cache
>> line size, but that seems to be less fatal.
> 
> Grrrghh... I see.

Maybe a thumb question ?
How does the wrong cache line size makes that the code corrupts ???
I will belive that the execution speed might not be optimal ?

Can someone throw some light on this I don't understand this behaviour ?

...

Thanks

heinz

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