On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Kevin Lawton wrote:

> OK, briefly, I had to redo the timing code.  I have the
> monitor distributing time, as I mentioned before.  Got
> past the BogoMIPS calculation:

Excellent!  It's nice to see real kernel messages progressing.  :-)

> Next; an instruction is tripping a #PF to the first page in the
> segment (@ 0xc0000000).  BTW, this Linux image is the old style
> segmentation.
> 
> This may be intentional.

Sounds like this is the check for whether the WP bit is honoured in
supervisor mode.  (Which fits with my kernel log messages too).

Chris
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