Re: [Qemu-ppc] [2.3 V2 PATCH 0/6] target-ppc: Assorted Floating Point Bugs and Cleanup

[Alexander Graf]

On 12.11.14 22:45, Tom Musta wrote:
> This patch series corrects some issues with floating point emulation
> on Power.
> 
> Patch 1 corrects a corner case in the square root instructions, which
> incorrectly react to NaN whose sign bit is a 1.
> 
> Patches 2-6 correct a rather pervasive problem with modeling of the CR[1]
> field (i.e. the "dot form" instructions of the FPU).
> 
> The bugs were found by running random test patterns through actual Power
> hardware (P7 and P8) and comparing against QEMU.
> 
> The patches conflict quite a bit with Paolo's series that splits CR into
> 32 one bit registers.  Paolo: is V3 of your patch series coming anytime 
> soon?
> 
> V2 Reworked patches to pick up the gen_set_cr1_from_fpscr() utility that 
> was recently added by Paolo Bonzini.

Thanks, applied all to ppc-next-2.3.


Alex