From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751896AbbHQWSG (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:18:06 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:55548 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751206AbbHQWSF (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:18:05 -0400 Message-ID: <55D25D7F.40503@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:17:35 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Ingo Molnar , Juergen Gross , Andy Lutomirski , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Brian Gerst , Denys Vlasenko , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes References: <20150814071500.GA2678@gmail.com> <20150817080143.GA16928@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/17/2015 10:17 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:58 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> That is not true. It *does* work, and I have tested it fairly recently. > > Ok, so it's not too badly broken. Good. > > Also, while it's been a long time since we needed FPU emulation on the > i486sx, I don't recall the details of any of the (much more modern) > IoT small cores. I *think* the base platforms are all at a Pentium > level (ie not just FPU, but MMX), but maybe there's some reason to > keep FP emulation alive for some platforms. > I just went back and looked at my records... I can guarantee that it worked as of 743aa456c1834f76982af44e8b71d1a0b2a82e21. -hpa