On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:47:45 -0700 (PDT) Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. josh _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
