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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MIPS FPU dynamic activation, part 1
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

It would be great to see Hervé's patch in CVS HEAD.

There are already emulated MIPS machines with and without
FPU today, so removing the need for different binaries
is a good idea.

Stefan

Hervé Poussineau schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> This patch remove (most of) the use of the #define MIPS_USES_FPU, and
> replaces it with a check of the FP bit in the config1 register.
> The only place where MIPS_USES_FPU is still used is when resetting a
> CPU, to
> set (or not) the FP bit.
>
> In a latter patch, this bit may be dynamically enabled according to some
> condition, as a command line switch or the CPU model.
>
> Hervé
>
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