From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 9: 5:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from primus.vsservices.com (primus.vsservices.com [63.66.136.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3435E37B417 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:05:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from prime.vsservices.com (conr-adsl-dhcp-26-38.txucom.net [209.34.26.38]) by primus.vsservices.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBHH5dC16570; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:05:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gclarkii@vsservices.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: GB Clark II To: Terry Lambert Subject: The alternate FPUEMU (was: IBM's intentions with JFS (was: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD))) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:05:42 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <20011217111835.A43375@tisys.org> <3C1DDB26.62969FFB@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3C1DDB26.62969FFB@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01121711054200.65128@prime.vsservices.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday 17 December 2001 05:46, Terry Lambert wrote: --SNIP-- > > The GNU FPU emulator is much less useful (and much less used) > because of the usefully equivalent BSD version that is the > default, and because of most modern hardware, wigth the exception > of embedded systems, coming with FPU hardware already installed. --SNIP-- Yes, for modern hardware it is of little concern, however, please note that the "GNU" FPU is not actually under the GPL! Back in 1994 I had dug this thing up (it was the at time the default linux emulator) because I wanted to run ghostscript on a 386 and the our regular emulator (and libm) would not run it with faults. That is also why the sun libm was brought in. After a little help from David Greenman to track down a kernel conflict it was imported. It is under a modified license from the copyright holder. Source only distributions of it have NO chance of infecting the BSD code. And even binary distributions are not a problem if the source code is available. GB -- GB Clark II | Roaming FreeBSD Admin gclarkii@VSServices.COM | General Geek CTHULU for President - Why choose the lesser of two evils? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message