From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:28:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([62.254.210.129]:11526 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133833AbVK3L2C (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:28:02 +0000 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAUBSM5E004564; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:28:22 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jAUBSLRJ004563; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:28:21 GMT Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:28:21 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Matej Kupljen Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Jordan Crouse Subject: Re: MIPS no FP patch Message-ID: <20051130112821.GB2694@linux-mips.org> References: <1133348852.24526.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1133348852.24526.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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: 9565 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 Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:07:32PM +0100, Matej Kupljen wrote: > This is a patch that makes FP emulation in kernel an option. > I used this when I was looking why there are still some > FP instruction in glibc, even though it was configured with > --withot-fp. This seemed the best way to ensure this. > > It is for the 2.6.14-rc2, but I think there is only a minimal > work to use it on latest kernel. We used to have this option but I eventually got rid of it because people just don't grok that they must enable it in precense of an FPU. Ralf