Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH: (on Alpha) emulating missing instructions | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:29:58 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> That could be a worthwhile project at some point, as > that's a fair amount of code. The only thing that concerns > me, is that is the FP emulation code there to allow booting > on 386s with no FPU ? > > Ie, without it, will the kernel boot on a PC without an FPU ?
It can be made to do so yes. You would be using SIGILL and catching the exception in userspace instead of kernel space
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