Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:21:44 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, k Macy <kip_macy@yahoo.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@vicor-nb.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KSE question Message-ID: <3C51E888.FD13A18D@mindspring.com> References: <3C51D0B6.F6E04EBC@mindspring.com> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020125164325.24428A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <15441.56832.170618.611705@caddis.yogotech.com>
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Nate Williams wrote: > There's lots of talk about using this 'FPU used' flag, but at least my > read of things from the long discussion before was that it may not be > possible to implement this on the x86 architectures we currently > support. > > It sounds like a great idea, *IF* if can be done. Yes, that was my reservation as well. You can do it from first principles using the tool chain, but runtime detection is much, much harder. 8-(. I suggested the toolchain approach in the email to which he was replying to work around this exact problem, in fact. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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