Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 09:43:35 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, FreeBSD emulation <freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: linux_base 6.1 may work now Message-ID: <38EA1BB7.7B7EEE47@cup.hp.com> References: <14538.64168.213977.432746@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000311235754.A5556@stat.Duke.EDU> <20000312154020.A486@internal> <20000313083137.A25830@cons.org> <20000402145454.A64658@internal> <20000403081745.A4136@cons.org> <38E8C73D.154FCA23@cup.hp <20000403183903.A20419@internal>
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Andre Albsmeier wrote: > Well, I think, Martin thought of a response to the following statement > he made on Mon, 13 Mar 2000 and not to my mail asking to commit > the npx.h changes to -STABLE :-) > > ---------------- Part of cracauer@cons.org's email -------------------- > > Emulators should set the default FPU control word to what the native > kernel would, they should not inherit this value from the one that > FreeBSD assigns to its native processes. If FreeBSD sets the control word correctly for a given emulator, then I can understand that it isn't reset by the emulator. Changing FreeBSD's behaviour should be accompanied by a change in the emulators that are negetively impacted by it :-) > Although FreeBSD-4.0 now defaults to what Linux and Solaris expect, > this should be fixed in the Linux and Solaris emulators. Because the > FreeBSD control word may still be set to the old value by users and/or > a dynamic scheme for FreeBSD processes may be implemented. A valid point. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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