Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932330AbWJCQvt (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:51:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932333AbWJCQvt (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:51:49 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:50662 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932330AbWJCQvs (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:51:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:51:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Randy Dunlap cc: akpm , Jesper Juhl , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2 In-Reply-To: <20061003094926.0e99d13f.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Message-ID: References: <9a8748490609181518j2d12e4f0l2c55e755e40d38c2@mail.gmail.com> <9a8748490609191414m6748f2fu521637df29ef9e8e@mail.gmail.com> <20061002191638.093fde85.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20061002213809.7a3f995f.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20061003092339.999d0011.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20061003094926.0e99d13f.rdunlap@xenotime.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 641 Lines: 19 On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > So Randy, with this you can boot all the way into user space, and some FP > > apps still work too? > > My few trivial float and double apps work. > Is there any particular test/workload that you want me to run? Not really, if "most things just seem to work", that's already pretty much all we should ask for from the math emulation. Linus - 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/