From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 18 12:11:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B724E37B41A for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:11:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16827 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2001 20:11:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Dec 2001 20:11:40 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011218125508.00d9b100@localhost> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:11:25 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Brett Glass Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Cc: Terry Lambert , Craig Harding , chat@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 18-Dec-01 Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:52 PM 12/18/2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >>Actually, no, the kernel doesn't know about loading the math emulator. Not >>to >>mention that we have two of them. > > I was referring to some of the other code, including ext2fs. This is again, autoloaded by mount when you try to mount an ext2fs filesystem by using a generic name-based scheme. It has no specific knowledge of ext2fs at all, and the kernel still does not autoload the module. > The GPLed math emulator is no longer needed at all, because the > BSD-licensed one is quite good. The GPLed one should be scrubbed from > the tree as it is no longer useful and is extra work to maintain (if it > is being maintained at all). Actually, it's not needed because it's only used on 386's and 486sx's, which aren't but so widely used these days. FreeBSD 5.0 won't support floating point on either without a custom kernel until it grows autoloading support in the loader. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message