[patches] Re: Status of E500 Linux kernel trap handlers?

[Steve Papacharalambous <stevep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kumar,

My apologies, I should have posted this to the list earlier. :-(

There are kernel patches for e500 floating point trap handling available
from the ltib gpp, see link below.  In addition these have been ported
to 2.6.19 and should be posted on the gpp in the next couple of weeks,

Best regards,

Steve

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 01:36 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Steve Papacharalambous wrote:
> 
> > Hi Joseph,
> > 
> > I believe that these kernel patches have been released, you can get the
> > patches from:
> > http://www.bitshrine.org/autodocs/bsp_ext_ava_mpc8548cds.html
> > 
> > I think that the IEEE754 patches are the one that you need,
> 
> Thanks - you will have seen Kumar Gala's message on the EGLIBC patches 
> list <http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg00018.html> saying "there 
> isn't any code today that does this", could you respond to that list 
> message explaining the current status of these patches and any plans for 
> merging them into kernel.org kernels, to avoid list readers duplicating 
> effort?
> 
> The patches definitely need at least refreshing against 2.6.19, they 
> affect files that are no longer in the locations shown in those patches, 
> and so would probably be difficult for anyone to use as is with a current 
> kernel.
>