From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 12 13:26:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD45814F79 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA52065; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:26:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:26:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Martin Cracauer , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? In-Reply-To: <199907121926.PAA02307@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < 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 > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom > Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame > MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message