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From: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 10:59:50 +0100
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Subject: Floating point in kernel?
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Hi

The new AMD graphics drivers use floats in kernel space.
Upstream Linux code has something like:
kernel_fpu_begin();
...
kernel_fpu_end();

Do we have similar functions to save/restore FPU registers?

Cheers