diff --git a/pipelined/regression/regression-wally b/pipelined/regression/regression-wally
index 3daadf769..664f99648 100755
--- a/pipelined/regression/regression-wally
+++ b/pipelined/regression/regression-wally
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ configs = [
 ]
 def getBuildrootTC(short):
     INSTR_LIMIT = 4000000 # multiple of 100000; 4M is interesting because it gets into the kernel and enabling VM
-    MAX_EXPECTED = 246000000
+    MAX_EXPECTED = 246000000 # *** TODO: replace this with a search for the login prompt.
     if short:
         BRcmd="vsim > {} -c <<!\ndo wally-pipelined-batch.do buildroot buildroot $RISCV "+str(INSTR_LIMIT)+" 1 0\n!"
         BRgrepstr=str(INSTR_LIMIT)+" instructions"