From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 16 May 2006 12:45:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:50834 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133440AbWEPKox (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 12:44:53 +0200 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4GAiqfk003594; Tue, 16 May 2006 11:44:52 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k4GAipbg003593; Tue, 16 May 2006 11:44:51 +0100 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:44:51 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Atsushi Nemoto Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] unify mips_fpu_soft_struct and mips_fpu_hard_struct Message-ID: <20060516104451.GA2912@linux-mips.org> References: <20060516.012603.41010976.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060516.012603.41010976.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> 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: 11445 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 Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:26:03AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > The struct mips_fpu_soft_struct and mips_fpu_hard_struct are > completely same now and the kernel fpu emulator assumes that. This > patch unifies them to mips_fpu_struct and get rid of mips_fpu_union. Btw, the grand plan was to keep not the actual floating point register values in memory for the emulator but the "pre-exploded" numbers. Exploding and then the normalization at the end again are significant time consumers. Ralf