On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> I wrote some code that uses the Floating-Point unit, inside a Linux > kernele module and tried to run it on a dual SPARC. However, I get the > following error: > > Jan8 09:45:55 linux kernel: \|/ ____ \|/ > Jan8 09:45:55 linux kernel: "@'/ ,. \`@" > Jan8 09:45:55 linux kernel: /_| \__/ |_\ > Jan8 09:45:55 linux kernel: \__U_/ > Jan8 09:45:55 linux kernel: perl(2270): Kernel gets FloatingPenguinUnit > disabled trap nice to see someone placed ascii art in the kernel :) note the name of the FPU that is claimed to be disabled (FloatingPenguinUnit). lets take a wild guess - the kernel, for some reason, tries to use the software-level floating point code, and this code was not compiled into the kernel. hceck your boot messages to see what the kernel sais about floating point - i never ran linux on sparc, so i don't know how this messages is supposed to look, but i guess it'll be self-explanatory. if you want to be sure of tihngs - look at the source tree, at the 'sparc' subdir, and see what they've done there. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
