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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:58:56AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:

> ralf> So here is a preliminiary version of my patch.  Still untested
> ralf> and needs to be applied to mips64 also.
> 
> Thank you.  This patch works fine for me.
> 
> One request: with this patch, a ptrace call for FPC_EIR returns error
> on FPU-less CPUs.  The call can be handled without error (as for other
> FP registers).

I don't think there is much point in returning a version number if there is
nothing we could return a version number of.  Well, maybe the fp emulation
sw version or kernel version.  What would you consider a sensible return
value?

  Ralf