From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i387 Floating Point Unit (FPU) testing
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:11:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <454FDD27.6000506@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454E54B6.5010206@superbug.co.uk>
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The kernel contains some i387 FPU emulation code.
> Is there any user land software to test the FPU emulation code?
> I would like to be able to prove the correctness of the FPU emulation
> code in the Linux kernel, and also port the test program to other
> platforms that utilize FPU emulation. For example, DOS emulators like
> DOSBOX.
>
The i387 FPU emulation code is originally from DJGPP, I believe.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-07 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-05 21:16 i387 Floating Point Unit (FPU) testing James Courtier-Dutton
2006-11-05 23:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-06 0:12 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-11-07 1:11 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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