Subject: Re: fpu emulator broken?
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Sean-Paul Rees <sean@flame.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/19/2000 23:02:23
I tried a -current snapshot before 1.4.2_ALPHA and it still exhibited the
same problem.

I can run test kernels, snapshots, or whatever on my machine if it would help
track down and fix the bug.

Cheers,
Sean

On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 02:53:24PM +0900, Ken Nakata wrote:
> Sean-Paul Rees wrote:
> > 
> > Is the fpu emulator broken in 1.4.2_ALPHA? Every time I do a w, uptime, or run
> > practically any program I get an "Illegal Instruction." Some of the programs
> > panic the kernel and when I trace I get lots of errors related to fpu_*
> > functions.
> > 
> > Machine: LC 3, 12M RAM. Bad hardware maybe? (runs MacOS fine!)
> 
> I've been meaning to fix this for a while.  I believe it crept into
> 1.4.1.  However, I have no access to a '030 machine (it appears that it
> occurs only on '030 boxes; my Q840AV has no problem) which makes
> debugging a little harder.
> 
> Has anybody looked into this?
> 
> Ken