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From: eyal@echo.canberra.edu.au (Eyal Lebedinsky)
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Subject: Re: Running without an FPU
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Date: 20 Sep 90 05:30:58 GMT
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Hello Everyone

Not yet having my pc532 going I did not dig deep into the hware design. But
I thought I'll throw in my approach to this situation:

Set a watchdog timer.
try accessing the FPU.
If the next instruction is reached - I have an FPU.
If the timer interrupt arrives - I have no FPU.

Now, do we have a timer? will the interrupt be acknowledged if the FPU bus
cycle is stuck?

Those in the know can answer this.
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Regards
	Eyal