Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:40:41 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen <erakupa@kk.etx.ericsson.se>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: npxintr from nowhere Message-ID: <199712120210.MAA00359@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Dec 1997 17:59:38 -0800." <19971211175938.41550@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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> > Hmm, interesting. I would guess that this means that you shouldn't run > > floating point code in the kernel. > > :) yeh... well, I was going to improve the fade screen saver so that > it wouldn't turn everything to a dull grey... Fixed point. Faster too. > also, if I remeber correctly, there are only two places in the kernel > that use floating point... one of them is in the Bt848 driver... I just looked; where? > > It probably fails because the FPU initialisation is lazy, and if you > > haven't initialised it before you use it, you'll die screaming. > > is there a routine for the kernel code to use to initalize it? You'd have to ask Bruce about that. mike
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