Re: [PATCH v6 5/5] Auto-detect whether a FPU exists

2018-08-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 03:44:40PM +0800, Alan Kao wrote: > We expect that a kernel with CONFIG_FPU=y can still support no-FPU > machines. To do so, the kernel should first examine the existence of a > FPU, then do nothing if a FPU does exist; otherwise, it should > disable/bypass all FPU-related f

[PATCH v6 5/5] Auto-detect whether a FPU exists

2018-08-09 Thread Alan Kao
We expect that a kernel with CONFIG_FPU=y can still support no-FPU machines. To do so, the kernel should first examine the existence of a FPU, then do nothing if a FPU does exist; otherwise, it should disable/bypass all FPU-related functions. In this patch, a new global variable, has_fpu, is creat