Call for testers: FPU changes

Daryl Richards daryl at isletech.net
Fri Nov 19 02:37:48 UTC 2010


Not sure if this is the kind of testing you were looking for; but I've
run both mprime and boinc/setiathome for the last two days without any
problem...

It's not a notebook so I can't test suspend/resume..

On 10-11-15 4:13 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> Hello,
> this is a call for testers of the merge of fpu_kern_enter/leave(9)
> to RELENG_8. The changes are required to fix some issues with VIA
> padlock engine, and to actually merge aesni(4) to RELENG_8.
> 
> I ask to look at the possible FPU context handling regressions.
> Reports from the users of VIA padlock hardware are also needed.
> Any user that has suspend/resume magically working on
> 8 branch, please test that the patch does not make the things
> worse.
> 
> Please note that the pre-release freeze will start in 2 weeks, so 
> I need to get testing results relatively quickly to be in time for 8.2.
> 
> Patch is at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/releng_8_fpu.1.patch
> 
> Thanks in advance.

-- 
Daryl Richards
Isle Technical Services Inc.


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