PPC upstream kernel ignored DABR bug

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:57:32 -0500
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:47:45 -0700 (PDT)
> Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > The only machine I have at home for testing powerpc is an Apple G5,
> > supplied to me by IBM.  It says:
> > 	cpu             : PPC970FX, altivec supported
> > 	revision        : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300)
> > so I am guessing this document applies to the chips I have.  Since I can't
> > test on other chips myself, it is plausible from what I've seen that there
> > is no mysterious kernel problem and only this hardware problem.  The
> > description of the hardware problem would not make me think that it would
> > behave this way, but it is not very detailed or precise, or at least does
> > not seem so to a reader not expert on powerpc.
> 
> I ran the testcase on my older G5 today with:
> 
> cpu             : PPC970, altivec supported
> revision        : 2.2 (pvr 0039 0202)
> 
> and it also failed after a few iterations.  This was with
> 2.6.25-0.121.rc5.git4.fc9 as the kernel, which is fairly close to mainline.  At the least, this doesn't seem to be 970FX related.  I'll try building a vanilla 2.6.25-rc7 later this evening to see if that makes a difference.

Still failed with a -vanilla build of 2.6.25-rc7.

josh