hush on NONMMU for active shell

Bernhard Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Wed Jun 6 21:30:30 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:16:30PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>On Wednesday 06 June 2007, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>> Either real or emulated hardware where it is possible to test
>> combinations of noMMU and soft-float (the latter should not really be an
>> issue since it should be doable to trap on FP instructions in qemu, but
>> of course i didn't look at this yet) would be nice to have indeed.
>
>Blackfin has no FPU so it only has soft-float in the toolchain ... the 
>instruction set does not have any kind of floating point operation so there's 
>nothing in the kernel to trap ... so for that stuff, you'd have to go with 
>arm or ppc really

yes, I was talking about trapping (just to be sure) on any FP on i386.
FP is not a problem to test, nommu looks like it is a problem.




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