Re: Summary of the Arm ports BoF at DC17

2017-09-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2017-09-17 at 21:30 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 12:59:04PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On 2017-09-15, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 03:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > [...] > > > > There is optional kernel support to trap the excepti

Re: Summary of the Arm ports BoF at DC17

2017-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 07:11:38PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 03:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >[...] >> There is optional kernel support to trap the exceptions here >> and emulate the instructions, but it's really not recommended for >> serious use (e.g. on a build machin

Re: Summary of the Arm ports BoF at DC17

2017-09-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2017-09-17 at 12:59 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2017-09-15, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 03:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > [...] > > > There is optional kernel support to trap the exceptions here > > > and emulate the instructions, but it's really not recomme

Re: Summary of the Arm ports BoF at DC17

2017-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 12:59:04PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2017-09-15, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 03:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > [...] > >> There is optional kernel support to trap the exceptions here > >> and emulate the instructions, but it's really not re

Re: Summary of the Arm ports BoF at DC17

2017-09-17 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2017-09-15, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 03:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [...] >> There is optional kernel support to trap the exceptions here >> and emulate the instructions, but it's really not recommended for >> serious use (e.g. on a build machine!). > [...] > > Why is i