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Date:      Tue, 04 Apr 2000 09:43:35 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
To:        Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
Cc:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, FreeBSD emulation <freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: linux_base 6.1 may work now
Message-ID:  <38EA1BB7.7B7EEE47@cup.hp.com>
References:  <14538.64168.213977.432746@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000311235754.A5556@stat.Duke.EDU> <20000312154020.A486@internal> <20000313083137.A25830@cons.org> <20000402145454.A64658@internal> <20000403081745.A4136@cons.org> <38E8C73D.154FCA23@cup.hp <20000403183903.A20419@internal>

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Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> Well, I think, Martin thought of a response to the following statement
> he made on Mon, 13 Mar 2000 and not to my mail asking to commit
> the npx.h changes to -STABLE :-)
> 
> ---------------- Part of cracauer@cons.org's email --------------------
> 
> Emulators should set the default FPU control word to what the native
> kernel would, they should not inherit this value from the one that
> FreeBSD assigns to its native processes.

If FreeBSD sets the control word correctly for a given emulator, then I
can understand that it isn't reset by the emulator. Changing FreeBSD's
behaviour should be accompanied by a change in the emulators that are
negetively impacted by it :-)

> Although FreeBSD-4.0 now defaults to what Linux and Solaris expect,
> this should be fixed in the Linux and Solaris emulators. Because the
> FreeBSD control word may still be set to the old value by users and/or
> a dynamic scheme for FreeBSD processes may be implemented.

A valid point.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
  mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org
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