Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752217AbbHQXrm (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:47:42 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com ([209.85.212.173]:34803 "EHLO mail-wi0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750847AbbHQXrl (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:47:41 -0400 Message-ID: <55D2729D.8020201@nexus-software.ie> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:47:41 +0100 From: "Bryan O'Donoghue" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds , "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Ingo Molnar , Juergen Gross , Andy Lutomirski , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Brian Gerst , Denys Vlasenko , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes References: <20150814071500.GA2678@gmail.com> <20150817080143.GA16928@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 898 Lines: 21 On 17/08/15 18:17, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:58 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> That is not true. It *does* work, and I have tested it fairly recently. > > Ok, so it's not too badly broken. Good. > > Also, while it's been a long time since we needed FPU emulation on the > i486sx, I don't recall the details of any of the (much more modern) > IoT small cores. I *think* the base platforms are all at a Pentium > level (ie not just FPU, but MMX), but maybe there's some reason to > keep FP emulation alive for some platforms. > > Linus Quark is pentium ISA - it has tsc, apic, fpu but, not mmx. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/