From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 04:04:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F6A537B401; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 04:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7E343F3F; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 04:04:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h6MB48FL047504; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:04:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:03:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20030722.050335.21271227.imp@bsdimp.com> To: peter@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org From: "M. Warner Losh" X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Removing fpu emulator X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:04:09 -0000 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