From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 00:02:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA05257 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:02:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA05252 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:02:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id AAA15637 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:02:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA23071; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 23:44:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 23:44:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: brian@mpress.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running without a hardware FPU In-Reply-To: <19970122095650.27133.qmail@mpress.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Jan 1997 brian@mediacity.com wrote: > Is there an option or options so I can produce a kernel which > does not use the hardware FPU of a pentium processor? Why? You could probably add options GPL_MATH_EMULATE to your kernel config and it may override it. If yours is buggy, you missed the boat, Intel would swap you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major