Re: floating points in kernel space

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Hi..

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 22:44, Dave Hylands <dhylands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That is correct. In some architectures, attempts to use floating point
> from the kernel will work. I've seen some x86 code that uses it.


AFAIK, once x86 didn't supported due to floating point related
registers are not correctly (or even doing?) saved and restored during
context switching. So maybe it is fixed now...

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Mulyadi Santosa
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