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Commit 0f194473 authored by Julian Brown's avatar Julian Brown Committed by Peter Maydell
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Correct value of ARM Cortex-A8 MVFR1 register.



The value of the MVFR1 (Media and VFP Feature Register 1) register for
the Cortex-A8 appears to be incorrect (according to the TRM, DDI0344K),
with the "full denormal arithmetic" and "propagation of NaN" fields
holding both 0 instead of both 1.

I had a go tracing the history of the use of this value, and it seems
it's always just been wrong in QEMU: maybe it was derived from early
documentation, or guessed based on the use of a "VFP Lite" implementation
in the Cortex-A8.

Depending on the startup/early-boot code in use, this can manifest as
failure to perform denormal arithmetic properly: in our case, selecting
a Cortex-A8 CPU when using QEMU as an instruction-set simulator for
bare-metal GCC testing caused tests using denormal arithmetic to
fail. Problems might be masked (or not occur) when using a full OS kernel
with suitable trap handlers (I'm not sure).

Signed-off-by: default avatarJulian Brown <julian@codesourcery.com>
Message-id: 1481130858-31767-1-git-send-email-julian@codesourcery.com
Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
parent 2494c9f6
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