Re: [PATCH/RFC] Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2 II -- it's terminally broken

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 05:24, Randy Dunlap wrote:

Actually I looked at the code more closely. It looks like kernel math
emulation is much more broken. e.g. kernel_fpu_begin() is missing
code and lots of other paths in i387 that need to check HAVE_HWFP don't.

Fixing it properly would be much more work.

Since it evidently hasn't worked for a long time I'm thinkin about
just marking it CONFIG_BROKEN and deprecating it for 2.6.20

Comments? 

-Andi

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