Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262456AbTEIL3k (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 07:29:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262459AbTEIL3j (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 07:29:39 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:26898 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262456AbTEIL3E (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 07:29:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 13:41:41 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: paubert Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , David Mosberger Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mask mxcsr according to cpu features. Message-ID: <20030509114141.GB4254@Wotan.suse.de> References: <20030509004200.A22795@mrt-lx16.iram.es> <20030509022417.GB15829@Wotan.suse.de> <20030509105622.B16311@mrt-lx16.iram.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030509105622.B16311@mrt-lx16.iram.es> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 623 Lines: 14 > Clearing the DAZ bit of every 32 bit program as soon > as it receives a signal can't be right. No doubt, but changing could still break things. Perhaps there is some program that depends on this behaviour (sets the bit by mistake and is safed by some signal), and debugging such things is always nasty. I try to keep the 32bit emulation bug-to-bug compatible to i386 -Andi - 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/