[parisc-linux] commit FP coproc enable code?
Philipp Rumpf
prumpf@suse.de
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 20:56:25 +0200
> o FP enable via writing cr10 (CCR) register. Not doing this the "right"
> way - which is to use PDC_COPROC but it will work for all PA1.1
> platforms.
Why is not using PDC_COPROC not the right way ? It should do exactly the same
thing, modulo machines without FPU (for which we do not provide emulation
anyway) and firmware bugs ...
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> RCS file: /home/cvs/parisc/linux/arch/parisc/kernel/head.S,v
> retrieving revision 1.32
> diff -u -r1.32 head.S
> --- head.S 1999/08/31 19:25:23 1.32
> +++ head.S 1999/09/30 22:43:03
I would prefer to do this somewhere after the kernel is loaded, in C, surrounded
by a pair of printks, so we know whether it is this that hangs the machine.