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+2002-01-19  Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
+
+        * fpa11.h - Add documentation
+                  - remove userRegisters pointer from this structure.
+                  - add new method to obtain integer register values.
+        * softfloat.c - Remove float128
+        * softfloat.h - Remove float128
+        * softfloat-specialize - Remove float128
+
+        * The FPA11 structure is not a kernel-specific data structure.
+          It is used by users of ptrace to examine the values of the
+          floating point registers.  Therefore, any changes to the
+          FPA11 structure (size or position of elements contained
+          within) have to be well thought out.
+
+        * Since 128-bit float requires the FPA11 structure to change
+          size, it has been removed.  128-bit float is currently unused,
+          and needs various things to be re-worked so that we won't
+          overflow the available space in the task structure.
+
+        * The changes are designed to break any patch that goes on top
+          of this code, so that the authors properly review their changes.
+
+1999-08-19  Scott Bambrough  <scottb@netwinder.org>
+
+        * fpmodule.c - Changed version number to 0.95
+        * fpa11.h - modified FPA11, FPREG structures
+        * fpa11.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
+        * fpa11_cpdo.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
+        * fpa11_cpdt.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
+        * fpa11_cprt.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
+        * single_cpdo.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
+        * double_cpdo.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
+        * extended_cpdo.c - Changes due to FPA11, FPREG structure alterations.
+
+        * I discovered several bugs.  First and worst is that the kernel
+          passes in a pointer to the FPE's state area.  This is defined
+          as a struct user_fp (see user.h).  This pointer was cast to a
+          FPA11*.  Unfortunately FPA11 and user_fp are of different sizes;
+          user_fp is smaller.  This meant that the FPE scribbled on things
+          below its area, which is bad, as the area is in the thread_struct
+          embedded in the process task structure.  Thus we were scribbling
+          over one of the most important structures in the entire OS.
+
+        * user_fp and FPA11 have now been harmonized.  Most of the changes
+          in the above code were dereferencing problems due to moving the
+          register type out of FPREG, and getting rid of the union variable
+          fpvalue.
+
+        * Second I noticed resetFPA11 was not always being called for a
+          task.  This should happen on the first floating point exception
+          that occurs.  It is controlled by init_flag in FPA11.  The
+          comment in the code beside init_flag state the kernel guarantees
+          this to be zero.  Not so.  I found that the kernel recycles task
+          structures, and that recycled ones may not have init_flag zeroed.
+          I couldn't even find anything that guarantees it is zeroed when
+          when the task structure is initially allocated.  In any case
+          I now initialize the entire FPE state in the thread structure to
+          zero when allocated and recycled.  See alloc_task_struct() and
+          flush_thread() in arch/arm/process.c.  The change to
+          alloc_task_struct() may not be necessary, but I left it in for
+          completeness (better safe than sorry).
+
+1998-11-23  Scott Bambrough  <scottb@netwinder.org>
+
+        * README.FPE - fix typo in description of lfm/sfm instructions
+        * NOTES - Added file to describe known bugs/problems 
+        * fpmodule.c - Changed version number to 0.94
+
+1998-11-20  Scott Bambrough  <scottb@netwinder.org>
+
+        * README.FPE - fix description of URD, NRM instructions
+        * TODO - remove URD, NRM instructions from TODO list
+        * single_cpdo.c - implement URD, NRM
+        * double_cpdo.c - implement URD, NRM
+        * extended_cpdo.c - implement URD, NRM
+
+1998-11-19  Scott Bambrough  <scottb@netwinder.org>
+
+        * ChangeLog - Added this file to track changes made.
+        * fpa11.c - added code to initialize register types to typeNone
+        * fpa11_cpdt.c - fixed bug in storeExtended (typeExtended changed to
+          typeDouble in switch statement)