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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Math Coprocessor for Amiga Systems with 68000
Message-ID: <2118.272d9c68@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 30 Oct 90 02:29:44 GMT
References: <6767@alessia.dei.unipd.it> <912@boing.UUCP>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In article <912@boing.UUCP>, dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
> In article <6767@alessia.dei.unipd.it> marco@alessia.dei.unipd.it (Captain Harlock) writes:
>>
>>	Help Me !!
>>	I need know where the library mathXXXX.library
>>	look for 68881, because we want to add a math
>>	coprocessor in our Amigas.
>>	If somebody have just made it, please, send me
>>	some information about it.
>>
> The IEEE math libraries try to open a resource called MathIEEE.resource.
> If it exists when it opens and initializes it looks at various fields in
> the resource structure. One of those fields contains a pointer to the
> 68881/68882 base io addresses if the resource is for a 68881/68882. The
> vendor of the 68881/68882 should be providing the autoconfig software to
> set this up as well as the code that saves and restores the 68881/68882
> registers for task switching.
>
 So where can one find the format of this recource. I would like to do
something similar, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any
documentation on how to do it. Anybody?

 
> 
> -- 
> Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
> {uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}!amiga!boing!dale
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