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sysdiag(8)

FPAVERSION(8)  —  MAINTENANCE COMMANDS

NAME

fpaversion − print FPA version

SYNOPSIS

fpaversion [ −q ] [ −v ] [ −l ] [ −c ] [ −h ] [ −t[ sdrxctmMiuvCpSIh ]]

DESCRIPTION

Fpaversion performs various tests on the floating point accelerator (FPA).  With no arguments, it prints the version number of the microcode and constants that are currently installed on /dev/fpa, and performs a quick test to ensure proper operation. 

OPTIONS

-q Quiet output.  Print out only error messages. 

-v Verbose output. 

-l Loop through tests infinitely. 

-h Help.  Print command-line summary. 

-t Specify certain tests:

s Single precision format instructions. 

d Double precision format instructions. 

x Extended format instructions. 

c Command register format instructions. 

r User registers for all contexts. 

M Command register format matrix instructions. 

t Status generation. 

m Mode register. 

i Imask register. 

C Check checksum for microcode, mapping RAM, and constant RAM. 

p Simple pipe sequencing. 

S Shadow registers. 

v Print version number and date of microcode and constants. 

h Help.  Print summary of test specifiers. 

FILES

/dev/fpa
physical FPA device

SEE ALSO

fparel(8), sysdiag(8)

Sun Release 3.5  —  Last change: 10 March 1986

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