`tlbiel' instruction still breaks POWER3 on 2.6.0
Anton Blanchard
anton at samba.org
Fri Jan 23 09:02:28 EST 2004
> I know this has been discussed before. Stock 2.6.0 won't boot power3
> because of the infamous 'tlbiel' instruction stuff.
> 'arch/ppc64/Makefile' is also hardcoded to power4 via -mcpu=power4. I
> know about the workaround and have gotten a kernel to boot. Is there a
> rolled up patch in another ppc64 tree (ameslab, rsync)? Could we get it
> pushed into 2.6?
2.6.0 is ancient :) The fix is in current linus BK and ameslab-2.5
Anton
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