From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 6 07:29:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06224 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 07:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA06219 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 07:29:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA18552; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 16:33:52 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 16:33:51 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Eivind Eklund cc: Mark Tinguely , luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 and double operations in device drivers In-Reply-To: <19981203165746.J18661@follo.net> 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 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 -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||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