Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:26:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907121625240.50180-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199907121926.PAA02307@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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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...
>
> -GAWollman
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