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From: Pete Popov <ppopov@mvista.com>
To: Steve Johnson <stevej@ridgerun.com>
Cc: "linux-mips@oss.sgi.com" <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: floating point on Nevada cpu
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:02:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A706A22.6B760617@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A703E3C.360FB4FF@ridgerun.com

Steve,

Steve Johnson wrote:
> 
> Pete,
> 
>     We had a problem in user-space apps all showing 0 for floating-point
> results because we hadn't set the ST0_FR bit to 0, and we had a mis-match
> between user libraries (MIPS3k-compatible) and the floating point registers.
> We noticed the problem when we couldn't run "ps" or "rm" correctly and tracked
> it down from some old postings by Ralf and friends.  Maybe this is your
> problem, too?
> 
>     I added this to our setup call:
> 
>     set_cp0_status(ST0_FR, 0);

Problem solved before I finished my first cup of coffee. Thanks!

I bet this problem will show up here and there depending on how the boot
code sets cp0.  Seems like adding the above line in a mips generic init
routine would be a good thing.

Pete

  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-25 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-25  2:28 floating point on Nevada cpu Pete Popov
2001-01-25  2:33 ` Justin Carlson
2001-01-25  2:52   ` Pete Popov
2001-01-25  2:57     ` Justin Carlson
2001-01-25  2:57       ` Justin Carlson
2001-01-25  3:05   ` Pete Popov
2001-01-25  3:16     ` Justin Carlson
2001-01-25 14:54       ` Steve Johnson
2001-01-25 18:02         ` Pete Popov [this message]
2001-01-26 10:14           ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-26 10:14             ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-26 13:01             ` Steve Johnson
2001-01-26 13:57               ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-26 13:57                 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-27 19:16             ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-27 19:16               ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-25 17:26       ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-25 20:01         ` Justin Carlson
2001-01-25 22:12 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-26  7:53   ` Carsten Langgaard
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-25 17:37 Ralf Baechle

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