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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next prev 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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