Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:34:57 -0600 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FPU emulation still required? Message-ID: <199704240434.WAA01042@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:17:33 CDT." <199704240317.WAA00582@zuhause.mn.org>
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Hi, > Now that I've finally received my dual CPU ATX 1668, I'd like to get > SMP up and running. I noticed that some of the messages from the > beginning of the year said that FPU emulation was required because the > FPU registers weren't being saved properly. Is this still true? If > so, what sort of performance hit is there? although some people don't yet have a "warm fuzzy feeling" for the FPU code it does appear to be working. The main problem was identified as a missing lock release. float should be fine now... There is a current list of bugs at: http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/bugs.html -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD
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