From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 12 13:37:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0953A14C57 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:37:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA33358; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:36:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:36:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer 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. there are a lot of 486sx and 386 machines out there doing real work. > > -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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message