Re: Re: floating point emulator
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Igor Khavkine <i_khavki@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
To:kurian kattukaren <kjkos@rediffmail.com>
From:Igor Khavkine <i_khavki@alcor.concordia.ca>
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 <wagi@gmx.ch> did some work on the >>emulator, but not recently, I think.
>>Igor
Kurian Kattukaren
"Trying to join the herd(HURD)"
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