On 19/09/06, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> If I enable the math emulator in 2.6.18-rc7-git2 (only version I've
> tried this with) and then boot the kernel with "no387" then I only get
> as far as lilo's "...Booting the kernel." message and then the system
> hangs.
I'm wondering if it tries to use the MMX/XMM stuff for memcpy and friends.
I'm also wondering why you'd be doing what you seem to try to be doing in
the first place ;)
Simply to try and find bugs. If we have a math emulator and it's
selectable for my CPU type, then it should damn well work ;-)
Basically, "no387" doesn't seem to disable any of the fancier FPU
features, even though it obviously should. If you ask for math emulation,
you'll get emulation faults for _all_ of the modern MMX stuff too (which
we don't do).
Hmm, I guess that could be the problem. The emulator should disable
any stuff which it's not able to handle. I've not actually looked very
much at the emulator code yet, so I didn't realize it didn't disable
what it couldn't handle, but getting it to do that sounds like a
sensible first step.
It's entirely possible that nobody has ever tested this combination.
That was my thought as well, which is exactely why I chose to try it -
thinking that it might expose some bugs in math-emu or elsewhere.
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