From: Mark Hatle <fray@mvista.com>
To: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>,
Yu Bo-BOYU1 <Bo.Yu@motorola.com>,
linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Busybox of Hardhat preview 2.1 for sandpoint 74xx ?
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 07:45:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB7AE58.5050702@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030505211154.A12082@home.com>
Matt Porter wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 08:15:44PM -0700, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
>
>>On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 08:31:34PM +0000, Yu Bo-BOYU1 wrote:
>>
>>>Did anyone know if busybox of hardhat preview 2.1 for sandpoint 74xx work or
>>>not ?
>>>I got error "Bad trap at PC: 300162fc, SR: f032, vector=f00 Not tainted"
>>>no matter
>>>the root is mounted on NFS or ramfs.
>>
>>It's been a while since I last saw it, but this reminds me of what
>>happens when running the 74xx userspace on a kernel that doesn't have
>>altivec support enabled.
>
>
> Just to confirm, with the MSR VEC off on a 74xx core, it will definitely
> generate that bad trap (UnknownException) on mvista 74xx userspace. I've
> seen it on 7xx's that were unintentionally run on the ppc_74xx userspace,
> for example.
That would definatly explain it then. MontaVista ppc_74xx userspace has altivec
enabled in glibc. So the userspace DOES use altivec calls. (Altivec registers
are saved on signals and longjmp... this allows you to use altivec instructions
safely in complex programs.)
--Mark
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-05 20:31 Busybox of Hardhat preview 2.1 for sandpoint 74xx ? Yu Bo-BOYU1
2003-05-05 20:38 ` Mark Hatle
2003-05-06 3:15 ` Dale Farnsworth
2003-05-06 4:11 ` Matt Porter
2003-05-06 12:45 ` Mark Hatle [this message]
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2003-05-06 13:51 Yu Bo-BOYU1
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