[B2-devel] Re: New SIGSEGV code to be committed

[Brian J. <bjj...@us...>]

> What the hell is an "floating-point assist fault" ? Software/kernel
> emulation of some FPU instructions ?

Yes. IA64 uses a floating-point software assist module (FPSWA), loaded
as an EFI driver, to implement some floating point details.  See

  http://developer.intel.com/design/IA-64/Downloads/245415.htm

(BTW, I do IA64 firmware development as my "day job".)

						Brian J. Johnson

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