We're running Linux Kernel 2.4.26 on an 8540 ADS derivative. We're seeing an "illegal instruction" (SIGILL) exception under some circumstances (during a pthread_create call). We were wondering if this could be a symptom of CPU29 and if there is a patch available for CPU29.
"CPU29 L1 instruction cache gets multiple entries for same line after change in MSR[IS] bit " www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/errata/MPC8540CE.pdf Thanks -- Chiradeep Vittal Matisse Networks Inc.
