On 2005-10-19 M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de wrote:

> I just found another problem with this stuff: A little
> test program trying to execute an illegal FPU instruction
> panics the box. "kernel used FPU".
> The panic is pmax specific, but the reason might be in
> shared mips code... need to understand what happens.

  On my (patched) hpcmips machine your test program dies from segfault
(since you forgot to set SA_SIGINFO :).  I do have a pmax, but it isn't
set up right now.  I looked at the code, but I can't see anything that
might cause that.

Matthew Orgass
darkstar@city-net.com