From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 12 13:35: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116F614BED; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:35:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA21272; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:33:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Garrett Wollman , Martin Cracauer , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:26:06 EDT." Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:33:01 +0200 Message-ID: <21270.931811581@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , "Bria >> 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... A lot of 386 machines are being built into places where people will never know they are. We should not kill that market. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message