Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:03:35 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: peter@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Removing fpu emulator Message-ID: <20030722.050335.21271227.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <200307220811.h6M8BHIh059016@repoman.freebsd.org>, Peter Wemm writes: > Log: > Initiate de-orbit burn for fpu-less operation. 386+387 is still > theoretically supportable, but you'd really be happier with FreeBSD 2.1.8 > on it. People should also note that a big reason for doing this is to improve floating point support on FreeBSD. The old floating point emulator was getting in the way of those improvements. I'd expect to see a number of changes to libm over the coming days and weeks. I'd also hope to see long double support improved in i386 like it is in amd64 right now... Warner
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