Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:25:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? Message-ID: <199907130225.TAA03396@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:26:06 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907121625240.50180-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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> > 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... Lots (and I mean _lots_) of embedded systems use fpu-less 386 and 486 cores. Alienating users of these systems would be a dumb idea. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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