From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA13988 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 00:53:09 -0600 To: Grant Grundler cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] commit FP coproc enable code? Reply-To: law@cygnus.com In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 01 Oct 1999 13:52:53 PDT. <199910012052.NAA13364@milano.cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 00:03:57 -0600 Message-ID: <24837.938844237@upchuck.cygnus.com> From: Jeffrey A Law List-ID: In message <199910012052.NAA13364@milano.cup.hp.com>you write: > > 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 ... > > You are right. > But I'm lazy and I don't care right now about machines older than PA 1.1. > Someone who cares about PA 1.0 can implement that. I would recommend ignoring PA1.0 -- the only machines with PA1.0 processors are radically different than the machines y'all are targeting. The effort would be spent on PA2.0 :-) jeff