Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:50:53 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <20011020075053.C65903808@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011019181913.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 20-Oct-01 David E. O'Brien wrote:
> > obrien 2001/10/19 18:15:54 PDT
> >
> > Modified files:
> > sys/i386/conf GENERIC
> > Log:
> > Drop support for x87 emulation. Any CPU one would dare to run 5-CURRENT
> > on would have built-in FP support.
>
> Specifically, this drops out of the box support for 486sx's. The idea being
> that if you have a 486sx you are either running an older more trimmed down
> version of FreeBSD or building a custom release with a custom kernel that can
> add back in the emulation code. This saves us some room on the boot floppy a
t
> least. :)
You can also kldload the math emulator from the loader. This would be a
good thing for somebody to do some patches to get it onto the extra drivers
disk and/or have it autoloaded on boot after install.
Cheers,
-Peter
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