From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
Cc: Ralph Siemsen <rsiemsen@rossvideo.com>,
PPC_LINUX <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Init hangs
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:14:01 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0408060912370.7391@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <884A8F94-E7A5-11D8-9B14-003065F9B7DC@embeddededge.com>
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Dan Malek wrote:
> On the MPC8xx, which does not have a floating point unit, there is
> still sufficient support in the kernel to trap and emulate FPU reset
> and context save/restore for this purpose. You only need the
> CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is you intend to really do floating point
> arithmetic.
thanks for that tidbit. i've always wondered, for our 850DE, hmmm ...
math emulation or no math emulation? i guess i can just make sure
it's turned off, and see if it ever causes a problem.
rday
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-06 13:14 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 [this message]
2004-08-06 13:49 ` Dan Malek
2004-08-06 12:46 ` Wolfgang Denk
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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