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Re: FPU init patch (trivial), please review.



On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 09:06:45PM +0530, Cherry G. Mathew wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The following diff [1] uses macros instead of frobbing flags directly,
> when resetting the FPU. This diff omits clearing CR0_EM but I'm not
> sure this is relevant for port-amd64 anyway since it's an npx related
> bit.
> 
> Could you please try this patch and confirm that it's safe to commit ?

I'm not 100% sure why the extra level of obfustaction helps?

        David

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