From: Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@suse.de>
To: Grant Grundler <grundler@cup.hp.com>
Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] commit FP coproc enable code?
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 20:56:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991001205625.J16533@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19991001151206.H17134@thepuffingroup.com>; from Phil Schwan on Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:12:06PM -0400
> o FP enable via writing cr10 (CCR) register. Not doing this the "right"
> way - which is to use PDC_COPROC but it will work for all PA1.1
> platforms.
Why is not using PDC_COPROC not the right way ? It should do exactly the same
thing, modulo machines without FPU (for which we do not provide emulation
anyway) and firmware bugs ...
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/parisc/linux/arch/parisc/kernel/head.S,v
> retrieving revision 1.32
> diff -u -r1.32 head.S
> --- head.S 1999/08/31 19:25:23 1.32
> +++ head.S 1999/09/30 22:43:03
I would prefer to do this somewhere after the kernel is loaded, in C, surrounded
by a pair of printks, so we know whether it is this that hangs the machine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-10-01 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-01 19:12 [parisc-linux] [grundler@puffin.external.hp.com: commit FP coproc enable code?] Phil Schwan
1999-10-01 18:56 ` Philipp Rumpf [this message]
1999-10-01 20:52 ` [parisc-linux] commit FP coproc enable code? Grant Grundler
1999-10-02 6:03 ` Jeffrey A Law
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