From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 12 19:31:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A6971506C; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:31:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03396; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:25:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907130225.TAA03396@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 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." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:25:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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