On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:55:31PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 02:43:12PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > From: Stepan Moskovchenko <step...@codeaurora.org> > > > > Certain ARM CPU implementations (e.g. Cortex-A15) may not raise a > > floating- point exception whenever deprecated short-vector VFP > > instructions are executed. Instead these instructions are treated > > as UNALLOCATED. Change the VFP exception handling code to emulate > > short-vector instructions even if FPEXC exception bits are not > > set. > > Purely out of interest, how much use do these instructions have in > real programs?
They're seldom used, but there are apps in the app store that use short vectors to play music. Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
