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

[Steve Papacharalambous <stevep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

They have been completed and are undergoing internal review.  I'll let
you know when they're available externally,

Best regards,

Steve

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 10:41 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
> 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.
> >>
> > 
> 
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