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

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just wondering if there is any status on the progress of moving the trap
handlers to 2.6.19 or newer?

Thanks,
Mark

Steve Papacharalambous wrote:
> 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.
>>
>