From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 25 14:37:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 889C237B41E for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:37:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA19932; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:36:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0PMamB46264; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:36:48 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15441.56832.170618.611705@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:36:48 -0700 To: Daniel Eischen Cc: Terry Lambert , Dan Eischen , k Macy , Peter Wemm , Julian Elischer , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KSE question In-Reply-To: References: <3C51D0B6.F6E04EBC@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The FPU usage is problematic, but is also resolvable, as a > > tools issue. > > > > Specifically, if an ELF section were generated whenever > > the compiler generated FPU code (let's call this section > > "flags", for the sake of argument), then the flag "FPU=1" > > could be set there. > > [ ... ] > > Interesting. I think we only care about FPU state > during signal deliver and preemptions though, and in > that case, the kernel can just pass us the "FPU used" > flag and/or "FPU format" along with the interrupted > context. There's lots of talk about using this 'FPU used' flag, but at least my read of things from the long discussion before was that it may not be possible to implement this on the x86 architectures we currently support. It sounds like a great idea, *IF* if can be done. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message