From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Liu Yu <Yu.Liu@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] math-emu: delete PowerPC old math-emu headers
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:44:52 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204713892.21545.199.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12047077481825-git-send-email-Yu.Liu@freescale.com>
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 17:02 +0800, Liu Yu wrote:
> Use common headers as a replacement.
> The Common headers are located in "include/math-emu/",
> they are used by multiple platforms such as s390, sparc, alpha.
>
> As the common headers have more developers,
> they are more popular and more stable.
>
> In fact, PowerPC old math-emu headers cannot handle float point
> exceptions exactly while the common headers can.
That sounds like an excellent idea. However, were you able to run some
kind of test suite to verify that the emulation works properly ?
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-05 9:02 [PATCH] math-emu: delete PowerPC old math-emu headers Liu Yu
2008-03-05 8:57 ` Liu Yu
2008-03-05 9:02 ` [PATCH] math-emu: modify the sfp-machine.h to fit the new interface of common " Liu Yu
2008-03-05 9:02 ` [PATCH] math-emu: use new interface of common math-emu headers in PowerPC math-emu C file Liu Yu
2008-03-05 10:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-03-06 3:05 ` [PATCH] math-emu: delete PowerPC old math-emu headers Liu Yu
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