From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id fAQForr08541 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 07:50:53 -0800 Received: from holomorphy (mail@holomorphy.com [216.36.33.161]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAQFono08536 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 07:50:49 -0800 Received: from wli by holomorphy with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 168N41-0000Nw-00; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 06:48:53 -0800 Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 06:48:53 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: FPU interrupt handler Message-ID: <20011126064853.K1048@holomorphy.com> References: <20011125002352.G1048@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:57:23PM +0100 Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:57:23PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Nope, R3k DECstations used to use the FPU emulator unconditionally. :-( > This would have never got triggered. An FPU interrupt-to-exception glue > was non-existent. Okay, that is at least some relief. On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:57:23PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > No need to do anything -- I happened to work on the FPU a bit recently > and I sent a patch here on Friday that adds the glue, enables the FPU and > rips the broken code off. Ralf has already applied the patch. Excellent! I'll apply it as well. On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:57:23PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > I would *really* appreciate any feedback on DECstation patches I'm > sending here -- for quite some time I have a feeling I'm the last one to > run Linux on a DECstation... :-( Well, I'm a more than willing tester, and perhaps I can even bring some code to the table in my spare time at some point for the drivers my system needs help with. Cheers, Bill