From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 13 3: 5:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42BB5151EA; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 03:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id TAA24789; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:04:59 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <378B077B.DBA3C534@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:31:39 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Garrett Wollman , Martin Cracauer , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > 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... And 486SX. Anyway, I still hear of people with such machines. As a matter of fact, I caught some flak when I made the loader require fpu for a while. So, it *will* affect some people. I see no cost in continuing support, so why remove it? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org I'm one of those bad things that happen to good people. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message