From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 25 15:22:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579D537B400 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:22:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0218.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.218] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16UFfI-0000mb-00; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:21:49 -0800 Message-ID: <3C51E888.FD13A18D@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:21:44 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Daniel Eischen , Dan Eischen , k Macy , Peter Wemm , Julian Elischer , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KSE question References: <3C51D0B6.F6E04EBC@mindspring.com> <15441.56832.170618.611705@caddis.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams wrote: > There's lots of talk about using this 'FPU used' flag, but at least my > read of things from the long discussion before was that it may not be > possible to implement this on the x86 architectures we currently > support. > > It sounds like a great idea, *IF* if can be done. Yes, that was my reservation as well. You can do it from first principles using the tool chain, but runtime detection is much, much harder. 8-(. I suggested the toolchain approach in the email to which he was replying to work around this exact problem, in fact. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message