Init hangs

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Fri Aug 6 23:14:01 EST 2004


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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