440EP FPU patch

Wade Farnsworth wfarnsworth at mvista.com
Fri Apr 1 02:26:18 EST 2005


On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 12:30, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 01:43:11PM -0500, Jason McMullan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 10:06 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > > Can you build your patch for the lopec_defconfig and fix the errors 
> > > associated with enabling altivec.
> > > 
> > > Looks like you need to include asm/offset.h & asm/page.h in vector.S, 
> > > however there is another build error after that.
> > 
> > Thanks! That also found a linking bug, fixed in this patch.. Please
> > double check the call in 'AltiVecUnavalible' in head.S, and the re-load
> > of 'ctr' at the end of load_up_altivec, as I do not have an AltiVec
> > machine here.
> 
> No dice:
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 100k init 4k prep
> floating point used in kernel (task=c03816b0, pc=c000d664)
> Doing some objdump'ing, that's the start of load_up_altivec.

Hi Jason and Tom,

Has there been any more progress on this patch?

Thanks,
Wade Farnsworth




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