[OpenBIOS] ppc64 MMU issues

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Andreas Färber wrote:

> Since r945 everything except for the trampoline issue should be in SVN.

Cool! :)

> I've made no more progress throughout the week though:
> 
> Directly after we set the MSR_IR|MSR_DR bits in the MSR 
> (arch/ppc/qemu/ofmem.c:setup_mmu), we get an ISI exception and end up in 
> arch/ppc/qemu/start.S:vector__0x400 (the 0xfffxxxxx one). We proceed up 
> to the bctrl which should take us to 
> arch/ppc/qemu/ofmem.c:isi_exception, but then get a 0x700 program 
> exception. The value in ctr looks sensible, it's some 0xfffxxxxx address.

Hmmm this sounds similar to a SPARC32 issue I was finding over the 
weekend whereby everything died after the MMU was enabled because the 
context table wasn't correctly aligned. Could it be possible that the 
MMU hash tables aren't aligned correctly in memory?


ATB,

Mark.

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