From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>,
davidm@hpl.hp.com,
Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.21 on Itanium2: floating-point assist fault at ip 400000000062ada1, isr 0000020000000008
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:10:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16491.6076.504437.267920@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0403311339550.12319@chaos>
>>>>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:53:13 -0500 (EST), "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> said:
Richard> The power-on or hardware-reset default for the ix86 FPU
Richard> is to attempt to handle div 0 errors transparently.
I must be missing something. So far I haven't seen anything that
would suggest the FPSWA faults were due to infinities. I'd guess that
it's much more likely that they're due to denormals.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-31 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-31 13:16 Ulrich Windl
2004-03-31 17:00 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-03-31 18:06 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-31 18:23 ` Alex Williamson
2004-03-31 18:37 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-31 18:53 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-31 19:10 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2004-03-31 20:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-31 21:27 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-31 20:15 ` Helge Deller
2004-04-01 7:04 ` Ulrich Windl
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