On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 03:39:10AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:48:15AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:
>
> > If your cpu does not have ll/sc instruction, you might be suffering the
> > famous
> > sysmips() problem. The latest kernel should get you going.
> >
> > There is also FPU emulation bug which may cause this problem, but that only
> > happens on heavy context switches and FPU usages.
>
> I've checked in a major bundle of FPU emu fixes last week. The kernel
> fp code should now produce accurate results and handle exceptions and
> the Flush to Zero bit as per spec.
>
This particular problem seems still there. Anybody can try the following
test program on a CPU *without* fpu.
Jun
kfpe_chk3.c
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