------------- Original Message -------------- Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To:kurian kattukaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From:Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:30:16 -0400 Subject: Re: floating point emulator
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:08:21AM -0000, kurian kattukaren wrote: > i would be very interested to about your work in porting > the linux floating point emulator for the HURD. i would > be very to happy to join this effort and contribute in > this endeavour. >>You're very much welcome to do so. There are some >>difficulties >>with jumping right into development though. If you go >>to my webpage, Can you give me the url for the webpage >>you'll see that the patch that adds FPU emulation >>to oskit-mach is very old (approximately 1 year old). >>So it would not >>directly apply itself to the current >>version of oskit-mach from CVS. >>I am just starting to get back to it after a long >>pause in development. >>However the biggest obstacle for >>me right now is getting oskit-mach to work >>on my development box. Right now it will not complete a boot >>without >>panicking. Once that's working I'll integrate >>my patch with the current >>version of oskit-mach. >>If you want to help, I suggest you first familiarise >>yourself with the >>oskit-mach source base. How it >>starts up, how it handles traps, and Mach >>exceptions. >>Also, one of the long >>term plans is to try and reshape the FPU emulator as a >>part of the oskit-project itself, so that other OS's >>can use it as well. >>If you have any questions feel free to ask. Also >>Daniel Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did some work on the >>emulator, but not >>recently, I think. >>Igor Kurian Kattukaren "Trying to join the herd(HURD)" ____________________________________________________ Buy Feng Shui Package for Rs. 151/- only, at http://shopping.rediff.com/shopping/fengshui_mailer.htm
