Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 16:33:51 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 and double operations in device drivers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812061632390.9936-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <19981203165746.J18661@follo.net>
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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 09:47:46AM -0600, Mark Tinguely wrote: > > > > My question is: "Is floating point math now taboo in the kernel?" > > > > > > it has always been! > > > > I asked for that one :). remove taboo and replace with "forbidden". > > It always has been. > > (Ie, it has never worked reliably, and this has been a known property > of the design). Ok, guys, tell me what I'm missing here: if the FP math cannot be used in kernel, then what for is the FPU emulator needed for SX processors??? Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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