440EP FPU patch

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Mar 19 06:30:46 EST 2005


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.

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