From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Apr 4 9:44:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel2.hp.com (atlrel2.hp.com [156.153.255.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C8137B70B for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by atlrel2.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D6BEEF; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:44:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0.1) id JAA23946; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <38EA1BB7.7B7EEE47@cup.hp.com> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 09:43:35 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Albsmeier Cc: Martin Cracauer , FreeBSD emulation Subject: Re: linux_base 6.1 may work now 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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