Re: [PATCH/RFC] Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Oct 03 2006 - 12:52:07 EST




On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >
> > So Randy, with this you can boot all the way into user space, and some FP
> > apps still work too?
>
> My few trivial float and double apps work.
> Is there any particular test/workload that you want me to run?

Not really, if "most things just seem to work", that's already pretty much
all we should ask for from the math emulation.

Linus
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