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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 2) Release notes for Linux Kernel VFP support code
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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 5) Date: 20 May 2004
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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 7) Author: Russell King
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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 9) This is the first release of the Linux Kernel VFP support code. It
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 10) provides support for the exceptions bounced from VFP hardware found
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 11) on ARM926EJ-S.
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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 13) This release has been validated against the SoftFloat-2b library by
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 14) John R. Hauser using the TestFloat-2a test suite. Details of this
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 15) library and test suite can be found at:
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 16)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 17) http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html
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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 19) The operations which have been tested with this package are:
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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 21) - fdiv
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 22) - fsub
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 23) - fadd
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 24) - fmul
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 25) - fcmp
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 26) - fcmpe
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 27) - fcvtd
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 28) - fcvts
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 29) - fsito
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 30) - ftosi
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 31) - fsqrt
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 32)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 33) All the above pass softfloat tests with the following exceptions:
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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 35) - fadd/fsub shows some differences in the handling of +0 / -0 results
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 36) when input operands differ in signs.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 37) - the handling of underflow exceptions is slightly different. If a
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 38) result underflows before rounding, but becomes a normalised number
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 39) after rounding, we do not signal an underflow exception.
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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 41) Other operations which have been tested by basic assembly-only tests
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 42) are:
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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 44) - fcpy
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 45) - fabs
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 46) - fneg
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 47) - ftoui
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 48) - ftosiz
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 49) - ftouiz
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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 51) The combination operations have not been tested:
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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 53) - fmac
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 54) - fnmac
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 55) - fmsc
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 56) - fnmsc
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 57) - fnmul