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1*4882a593Smuzhiyun2003-03-22  Ralph Siemsen <ralphs@netwinder.org>
2*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* Reformat all but softfloat files to get a consistent coding style.
3*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  Used "indent -kr -i8 -ts8 -sob -l132 -ss" and a few manual fixups.
4*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* Removed dead code and fixed function protypes to match definitions.
5*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* Consolidated use of (opcode && MASK_ARITHMETIC_OPCODE) >> 20.
6*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* Make 80-bit precision a compile-time option. (1%)
7*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* Only initialize FPE state once in repeat-FP situations. (6%)
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9*4882a593Smuzhiyun2002-01-19  Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
10*4882a593Smuzhiyun
11*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* fpa11.h - Add documentation
12*4882a593Smuzhiyun	          - remove userRegisters pointer from this structure.
13*4882a593Smuzhiyun	          - add new method to obtain integer register values.
14*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* softfloat.c - Remove float128
15*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* softfloat.h - Remove float128
16*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* softfloat-specialize - Remove float128
17*4882a593Smuzhiyun
18*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* The FPA11 structure is not a kernel-specific data structure.
19*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  It is used by users of ptrace to examine the values of the
20*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  floating point registers.  Therefore, any changes to the
21*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  FPA11 structure (size or position of elements contained
22*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  within) have to be well thought out.
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24*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* Since 128-bit float requires the FPA11 structure to change
25*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  size, it has been removed.  128-bit float is currently unused,
26*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  and needs various things to be re-worked so that we won't
27*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  overflow the available space in the task structure.
28*4882a593Smuzhiyun
29*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* The changes are designed to break any patch that goes on top
30*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  of this code, so that the authors properly review their changes.
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32*4882a593Smuzhiyun1999-08-19  Scott Bambrough  <scottb@netwinder.org>
33*4882a593Smuzhiyun
34*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* fpmodule.c - Changed version number to 0.95
35*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* fpa11.h - modified FPA11, FPREG structures
36*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* fpa11.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
37*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* fpa11_cpdo.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
38*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* fpa11_cpdt.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
39*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* fpa11_cprt.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
40*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* single_cpdo.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
41*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* double_cpdo.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
42*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* extended_cpdo.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
43*4882a593Smuzhiyun
44*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* I discovered several bugs.  First and worst is that the kernel
45*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  passes in a pointer to the FPE's state area.	This is defined
46*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  as a struct user_fp (see user.h).  This pointer was cast to a
47*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  FPA11*.  Unfortunately FPA11 and user_fp are of different sizes;
48*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  user_fp is smaller.  This meant that the FPE scribbled on things
49*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  below its area, which is bad, as the area is in the thread_struct
50*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  embedded in the process task structure.  Thus we were scribbling
51*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  over one of the most important structures in the entire OS.
52*4882a593Smuzhiyun
53*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* user_fp and FPA11 have now been harmonized.  Most of the changes
54*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  in the above code were dereferencing problems due to moving the
55*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  register type out of FPREG, and getting rid of the union variable
56*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  fpvalue.
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58*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* Second I noticed resetFPA11 was not always being called for a
59*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  task.  This should happen on the first floating point exception
60*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  that occurs.	It is controlled by init_flag in FPA11.  The
61*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  comment in the code beside init_flag state the kernel guarantees
62*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  this to be zero.  Not so.  I found that the kernel recycles task
63*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  structures, and that recycled ones may not have init_flag zeroed.
64*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  I couldn't even find anything that guarantees it is zeroed when
65*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  when the task structure is initially allocated.  In any case
66*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  I now initialize the entire FPE state in the thread structure to
67*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  zero when allocated and recycled.  See alloc_task_struct() and
68*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  flush_thread() in arch/arm/process.c.  The change to
69*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  alloc_task_struct() may not be necessary, but I left it in for
70*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  completeness (better safe than sorry).
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72*4882a593Smuzhiyun1998-11-23  Scott Bambrough  <scottb@netwinder.org>
73*4882a593Smuzhiyun
74*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* README.FPE - fix typo in description of lfm/sfm instructions
75*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* NOTES - Added file to describe known bugs/problems
76*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* fpmodule.c - Changed version number to 0.94
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78*4882a593Smuzhiyun1998-11-20  Scott Bambrough  <scottb@netwinder.org>
79*4882a593Smuzhiyun
80*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* README.FPE - fix description of URD, NRM instructions
81*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* TODO - remove URD, NRM instructions from TODO list
82*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* single_cpdo.c - implement URD, NRM
83*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* double_cpdo.c - implement URD, NRM
84*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* extended_cpdo.c - implement URD, NRM
85*4882a593Smuzhiyun
86*4882a593Smuzhiyun1998-11-19  Scott Bambrough  <scottb@netwinder.org>
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88*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* ChangeLog - Added this file to track changes made.
89*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* fpa11.c - added code to initialize register types to typeNone
90*4882a593Smuzhiyun	* fpa11_cpdt.c - fixed bug in storeExtended (typeExtended changed to
91*4882a593Smuzhiyun	  typeDouble in switch statement)
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