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> actually, now that someone else brought it up, any good way to call
> floating point routins from the kernel?  if you do, and don't have
> any processes that have used floating point, will will get the above
> mentioned panic...

Hmm, interesting.  I would guess that this means that you shouldn't run 
floating point code in the kernel.

Think about it for a moment; to whom would you deliver a floating-point 
exception?

It probably fails because the FPU initialisation is lazy, and if you 
haven't initialised it before you use it, you'll die screaming.

mike