Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:07:02 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? Message-ID: <19990713120702.A11909@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <199907121926.PAA02307@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 03:26:41PM -0400 References: <19990712112802.A4800@cons.org> <199907121926.PAA02307@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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In <199907121926.PAA02307@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:28:04 +0200, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> said: > > > I'm going to work on FreeBSD's floating point support, but I need to > > test my changes on systems using the FPU emulators (non-GPL and GPL). > > I suggested about half a year ago that we should officially desupport > non-FPU configurations in 4.0. Unfortunately, my resolution was > soundly defeated. Is the discussion you mentioned archived somewhere / was it on a public list? I'd like to read about the technical complications that arise from non-FPU support. Another class of machines I'd like to support are 486sx laptops, which make a nice system to run around-the-clock in a home environment. Also, there are many old (donated) PCs in the third world, eastern europe and Hamburg-Altona, a market that may become important, given the number of capable programmers who live there. I don't expect the work I'm going to do (FP exceptions) to be difficult to support on non-FPU machines, so I'm going to get a non-FPU machine to test it. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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