[patch][0/5] powerpc V2 : Add support to fully comply with IEEE-754 standard
Kumar Gala
galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Feb 8 16:18:53 EST 2007
On Feb 7, 2007, at 9:50 PM, Zhu Ebony-r57400 wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> These are the re-sent patches to add support to fully comply with
> IEEE-754 standard for E500/E500v2 core when hardware floating
> point compiling is used. Comparison with last patches I've submitted,
> the following points was changed:
>
> 1. Add a rounding exception handler, to handle the exceptions that
> would occur when rounding towards +Inf/-Inf
>
> 2. Using the existing exception entering/returning routine, and get
> the
> exception
> instructions from regs->nip instead of reading from SRR0
>
> Thank you all for the comments you gave to me!
Did you end up getting testfloat running? I'd like to see some
testing results before accepting these patches. I think testfloat is
our best bet at this point.
- k
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