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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [patch][0/5] powerpc: Add support to fully comply with IEEE-754
	standard
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:41:37 -0600
To: Zhu Ebony-r57400 <ebony.zhu@freescale.com>
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On Jan 11, 2007, at 11:19 PM, Zhu Ebony-r57400 wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> This series of patch add support to fully comply with IEEE-754  
> standard
> for E500/E500v2 core when hardware floating point compiling is used.
>
> Ebony

Here are some general comments:
* We should be able to support math-emu (as it stands) and the fixup  
handling [you break math-emu]
* Copyrights / header comments should give credit to the orig math- 
emu code
* Why isn't there any handling of SPEFloatingPointRound exceptions?

- k