Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:35:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907121634400.65911-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907121625240.50180-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > <<On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:28:04 +0200, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> 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 <jedgar@fxp.org> | 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
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