On May 5, 2005, at 8:45 AM, Jason McMullan wrote: > First off, this patch works.
Well ..... if you invalidate TLBs and flush cache often enough, you can mask lots of problems :-) > Secondly, I don't know exactly why. I just found all the band-aids I > could for MPC8xx swap functionality, applied them, and fixed the places > where it still bled. We shouldn't have the 8xx as a special case for the swap flags and information. We need to take a closer look at this. I guess I'll do that as part of fixing up the PTEs for the BDI2000 as well. > It's more of a dancing bear, than a real fix, but I now have working > swap (using ATA over Ethernet) on my MPC885 ADS. IIRC, ATA over Ethernet isn't the same as disk doing DMA due to the data copies involved. Thanks. -- Dan