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Date:      Sat, 6 Sep 2014 03:43:04 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r270850 - in head/sys: i386/i386 i386/include i386/isa x86/acpica
Message-ID:  <20140906033051.A1982@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <201409051044.05853.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201408301748.s7UHmc6H059701@svn.freebsd.org> <3070015.668SIdAzOX@ralph.baldwin.cx> <20140905084305.GN2737@kib.kiev.ua> <201409051044.05853.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, John Baldwin wrote:

> We might also consider removing support for 486sx CPUs and requiring an
> on-CPU FPU for i386.  If we do that we might able to use a common fpu.c
> which would be even nicer.

You mean a common npx.c.  The 'x' part of npx.c is much more descriptive
now than it was when the only extension was the floating point one.  The 
'n' part of npx.c is now too specific, but not as specific as the 'fp'
part of fpu.c.

Bruce



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