From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:34:47 +0100 (BST) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([IPv6:::ffff:62.254.210.129]:21008 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:34:32 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3SFYeMF005967; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:34:40 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j3SFYeU7005966; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:34:40 +0100 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:34:40 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: "Kevin D. Kissell" , Atsushi Nemoto , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: preempt safe fpu-emulator Message-ID: <20050428153440.GA5960@linux-mips.org> References: <20050427.143622.77402407.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp> <20050428134118.GC1276@linux-mips.org> <002d01c54bfa$5b913f80$0deca8c0@Ulysses> <20050428152123.GH1276@linux-mips.org> <20050428153356.GI1276@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050428153356.GI1276@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 7820 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:33:56PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > It depends on how they were actually used -- real FPU circuitry is > > "global", too, and somehow it works or at least it has to. > > But it's not shared across processes ;-) Processors, of course. Ralf