Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 22:43:58 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-7?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: does FreeBSD still support CPUs without math coprocessors? Message-ID: <20040701194357.GA1115@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <xzpr7rwklhf.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200407010219.44628.linimon@lonesome.com> <xzpr7rwklhf.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On 2004-07-01 13:36, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
> Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> writes:
> > The FAQ claims that it does, but ISTR recent discussion about removing
> > the software emulation. However, a search of the mailing lists, and
> > Google, fails to show anything, so it is completely possible that my
> > memory is playing tricks on me.
>
> It was removed last July (src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES rev 1.1091)
We should probably update this comment then, right?
# The Numeric Processing eXtension driver. In addition to this, you
# may configure a math emulator (see above). If your machine has a
# hardware FPU and the kernel configuration includes the npx device
# *and* a math emulator compiled into the kernel, the hardware FPU
# will be used, unless it is found to be broken or unless "flags" to
# npx0 includes "0x08", which requests preference for the emulator.
Taken from a recent src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES file:
$ ident /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES:
$FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES,v 1.1162 2004/06/23 17:33:24 brooks Exp $
- Giorgos
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