Thus spake Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh at kernel.crashing.org): > Hrm. This is really strange... Is this a problem? in pte-8xx.h you added: +#define _PAGE_SPECIAL 0x0008 /* SW entry, forced to 0 by the TLB miss */ but there is already this: #define _PAGE_EXEC 0x0008 /* software: i-cache coherency required */ take care! /rex.