[PATCH] Add support for FP emulation for the e300c2 core

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Mon Dec 4 14:23:20 EST 2006


Kim Phillips writes:

> The e300c2 has no FPU.  Its MSR[FP] is grounded to zero.  If an attempt
> is made to execute a floating point instruction (including floating-point
> load, store, or move instructions), the e300c2 takes a floating-point
> unavailable interrupt (IVOR7).

Can't you just point IVOR7 at the program check handler on these cpus?

Paul.



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