Re: [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: enable the math emulation for the corenet64_smp_defconfig

2013-07-10 Thread Scott Wood
On 07/09/2013 08:49:52 PM, Kevin Hao wrote: I got the following error on my t4240qds board. ntpd[2713]: unhandled signal 4 at 0fd5b448 nip 0fd5b448 lr 0fd5b424 code 30001 The root cause is that the float point instruction 'fsqrt' is used. But this instruction is not implemented on e6500 cor

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: enable the math emulation for the corenet64_smp_defconfig

2013-07-11 Thread Kevin Hao
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:40:03PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > On 07/09/2013 08:49:52 PM, Kevin Hao wrote: > >I got the following error on my t4240qds board. > > ntpd[2713]: unhandled signal 4 at 0fd5b448 nip 0fd5b448 lr > >0fd5b424 code 30001 > > > >The root cause is that the float point instructi

RE: [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: enable the math emulation for the corenet64_smp_defconfig

2013-07-11 Thread David Laight
> > It'd also be nice if we had an option to only include the portions > > of math-emu that are known to be missing in some CPUs (excluding > > CPUs that are missing the entire FPU, of course). Besides its > > effect on kernel image size, in my experience math-emu adds a > > non-trivial amount of

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: enable the math emulation for the corenet64_smp_defconfig

2013-07-11 Thread Kevin Hao
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:04:06AM +0100, David Laight wrote: > > > It'd also be nice if we had an option to only include the portions > > > of math-emu that are known to be missing in some CPUs (excluding > > > CPUs that are missing the entire FPU, of course). Besides its > > > effect on kernel i