From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 12 13:36:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF25714BED; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:36:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 879D1F818; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:35:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A17F9B15; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:35:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:35:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: jedgar@pawn.primelocation.net To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > < said: > > > > > I'm going to work on FreeBSD's floating point support, but I need to > > > test my changes on systems using the FPU emulators (non-GPL and GPL). > > > > I suggested about half a year ago that we should officially desupport > > non-FPU configurations in 4.0. Unfortunately, my resolution was > > soundly defeated. > > Why shouldn't we? Noone uses machines without FPUs anymore. What non-ancient > CPU doesn't have an FPU? And we're talking about the i386 family here... > Embedded systems, anyone? ----- Chris D. Faulhaber | All the true gurus I've met never System/Network Administrator, | claimed they were one, and always Reality Check Information, Inc. | pointed to someone better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message