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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:12:18 -0500
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From: Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@smiths-aerospace.com>
Subject: Re: mpc8241/8245 floating point unit
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It has always had a FPU.  For a while, Mot was not advertising it because
they had not verified that it worked properly, but it is an advertised
feature now.  It has always worked.

gvb


At 12:23 PM 3/5/2003 -0500, jan.damborsky@devcom.cz wrote:
>Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>
> >
> > I don't have 8241/8245 experience, but I do have 8260 experience (also
> > uses
> > the 603e core).  Floating point (FPU) works well under linux.
>
>Does 8260 really have full FPU support ?. I think it only has FPU
>register set and it supports
>FPU load and store instructions, but NOT arithmetic instructions. Am I
>right ?
>                   HANYS


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