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From:   Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: prevent user from setting FCSR cause bits
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 06:39:16PM +0100, Paul Burton wrote:

> Any chance you could expand that acronym for me? Maybe I'm being slow
> since neither of the expansions that spring to mind make much sense.

UML - User Mode Linux.  What I meant is something like UML might have a
legitimate reason to load values triggering exceptions into the FPU.
Obviously with UML not being supported on Linux that's hard to check
for sure ...

  Ralf