Re: Linux and FPU

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Wed Mar 25 2009 - 17:54:48 EST


On 03/25/2009 12:09 PM, Evgeniy Ivanov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can somebody point me to some general places, where I can look on how FPU
> support is implemented. I understand that there is not one place, where things
> done, the only I know, that there should be places for detecting FPU hardware
> and places with assembly routines for pushing around floating point registers,

I think you want to start with
arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
arch/x86/math-emu/

> assembly/C-hybrid code for handling floating point exceptions.

and arch/x86/kernel/traps.c

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