[PATCH 2/2] arm: Make VFPv3 usable on ARMv6

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Jun 25 09:50:38 EDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 08:57 +0100, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> MVFR0 and MVFR1 are only available starting with ARM1136 r1p0 release
> according to "B.5 VFP changes" in DDI0211F_arm1136_r1p0_trm.pdf. This is
> also when TLS register got added, so we can use HAS_TLS also to test for
> MVFR0 and MVFR1.
> 
> Otherwise VFPFMRX and VFPFMXR access fails and we get:
> 
> Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1]
> PC is at no_old_VFP_process+0x8/0x3c
> LR is at __und_svc+0x48/0x80
> ...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>

The new version looks fine to me.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

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Catalin




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