Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:01:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:01:50 -0500 Received: from smtp4.vol.cz ([195.250.128.43]:3596 "EHLO majordomo.vol.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:01:42 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:01:33 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: David Woodhouse Cc: Alan Cox , Ronald Wahl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Q] Looking for an emulation for CMOV* instructions. Message-ID: <20020118220132.GE6918@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020112063412.F511@toy.ucw.cz>

<3535.1011375513@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3535.1011375513@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > RPM does not help. Think new machine failed, but you still have some > > trash with 386 on it, so you connect your disk to it, boot from > > floppy, and expect it to work. > > What if my spare machine is an ARM? Should I still expect it to work? Let's say "It is easy in 386 case and hard in ARM case". Besides, we do FPU emulation already. Way harder than CMOV emulation, and serves exactly same purpose. Pavel -- (about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S. no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa - 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/