Re: netbsd-7 on Old World hardware

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 20:09:51 +0000 (UTC)
John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost> wrote:

> I then tried running ntpd on the Mac mini and it went from meaningful 
> without ntpd to meaningless with:
> 
>     Module     Error        RunTime      MFLOPS
>                              (usec)
>       1     -2.5183e+01      0.0411    340.6702
>       2             nan      0.0000         inf
>       3     -5.0000e-01      0.0000         inf
>       4     -8.6603e-01     -0.0000  -7680000019.3901
>       5     -6.9315e-01     -0.0000  -14847999931.9862
>       6     -2.5000e-01     -0.0000  -14848000037.4876
>       7      5.0020e+02      0.0000  864691128455135232.0000
>       8             inf     -0.0000  -15360000038.7803
> 
>     Iterations      =          0
>     NullTime (usec) =     0.0000
>     MFLOPS(1)       =        inf
>     MFLOPS(2)       =  3698.7057
>     MFLOPS(3)       =  3552.7043
>     MFLOPS(4)       = -15530666705.8778
> 
> 
> Ideas? Thoughts? This really would be nice to fix for NetBSD 7.

That looks like the FPU handling bug. Are you sure you have the fix?
It was pulled into -7 on the 17th.


have fun
Michael