Re: dmesg 'floating point used in kernel'

[Ken T. <ke...@we...>]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:

> > What's the significance of the floating point message ?
> 
> AFAIK, kernel code shouldn't contain floating point code to reduce the
> overhead for context switches etc. . arch/ppc/Makefile sets -msoft-float for
> that, have you been playing with it?

Ahhh, I see, you mean playing with the flag, No. 

The message appears when the kernel is compiled with egcs or gcc but only
after an X crash - what does this suggest ?

Ken