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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Ralph Siemsen <rsiemsen@rossvideo.com>
Cc: PPC_LINUX <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Init hangs
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:46:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806124639.3E765C109F@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Aug 2004 07:22:33 EDT." <411369F9.5060506@rossvideo.com>


In message <411369F9.5060506@rossvideo.com> you wrote:
>
> This could also be a floating point issue.  Most code compiled against
> libc will try to "reset" the floating point state upon startup.  This
> will cause a fault if you do not have a kernel floating point emulator

No, this has nothing to do with it.

First, Marco wrote that he is working on a 8270 processor which has a
FPU, so FP issues should not play a role here.

Second, he mentioned that he was using the ELDK which takes  care  of
using soft-float on processors without a MMU.


Thanks.

Wolfgang Denk

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-06 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-05  9:54 Init hangs Marco Schramel
2004-08-05 10:33 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-08-05 15:28   ` Marco Schramel
2004-08-05 17:48     ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-08-06  6:26       ` Marco Schramel
2004-08-06  8:11         ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-08-06 11:22           ` Ralph Siemsen
2004-08-06 12:38             ` Dan Malek
2004-08-06 13:14               ` Robert P. J. Day
2004-08-06 13:49                 ` Dan Malek
2004-08-06 12:46             ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2004-08-06 13:12               ` Ralph Siemsen
2004-08-06 13:44               ` Dan Malek
2004-08-06 14:36                 ` Wolfgang Denk

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