Subject: Re: What parts of the NetBSD-kernel are "closed"?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/12/2005 12:47:59
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:48:44AM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:37:43AM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> >>In article <434C5016.6080508@2005.smokva.net> you write:
> >>>Just out of curiosity: Is ath_hal the only 'sourceless' binary in the
> >>>NetBSD-Kernel?
> >>
> >>sys/arch/arm/fpe-arm/armfpe.S is the ARM Floating-Point Emulator.  It's 
> >>not
> >>used by normal NetBSD/arm systems (we do floating-point in userland), but 
> >>I
> >>think it's needed to run Linux executables.
> >
> >But that's assembler source!
> 
> It's assembler input, but I wouldn't call it source:
> 
>         .global _C_LABEL(fpe_arm_core)
> _C_LABEL(fpe_arm_core):
>         .word   0x00000000
>         .word   0x00000000

Ah--- in this case, the trap support code for the Motorola's 68060 
also counts as evil.

	-is
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