Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 08:03:32 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex Zepeda) Cc: green@FreeBSD.ORG (Brian F. Feldman), wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), cracauer@cons.org (Martin Cracauer), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? Message-ID: <199907122203.IAA70195@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907121337460.271-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> from Alex Zepeda at "Jul 12, 1999 01:44:18 pm"
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Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > 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... Nonsense. Read this: <http://developer.intel.com/design/intarch/prodbref/27270903.htm>; > I've noticed recently, more and more, Linux is moving into the embedded > market quite nicely, and being used on smaller and smaller systems. > FreeBSD OTOH has been focusing (albeit not too successfully) on the higher > end market. That's a matter of perspective. Remember that people can base a product on FreeBSD without being forced to give away their value-added sources. I have a solar powered i386 board here that consumes just 2W. It runs FreeBSD. There is a tiny bit of custom code to initialise the board and boot the kernel out of flash, but the kernel is standard FreeBSD. > With my recent addition of an 040 powered Mac that I plan to put NetBSD > on, this really irks me. I'd love to put some (read: a significant) > amount of time getting FreeBSD up and running on this, but there seems to > be a lot of resistance to using FreeBSD on smaller/older machines. It > almost seems like the requirement is Pentium III, Alpha or bust. I don't think that is true. You are commenting on what other people have chosen to put their time into. The only resistance I see is people actually doing the work. To get in-principle approval before doing a substantial amount of work, ask core@FreeBSD.org. My bet is they won't object. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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