linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610030950230.3952@g5.osdl.org>
Date:	Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:51:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
cc:	akpm <akpm@...l.org>, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2



On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > 
> > So Randy, with this you can boot all the way into user space, and some FP 
> > apps still work too?
> 
> My few trivial float and double apps work.
> Is there any particular test/workload that you want me to run?

Not really, if "most things just seem to work", that's already pretty much 
all we should ask for from the math emulation.

		Linus
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