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Date:      Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:35:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907121634400.65911-100000@pawn.primelocation.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907121625240.50180-100000@janus.syracuse.net>

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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> > <<On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:28:04 +0200, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> said:
> > 
> > > I'm going to work on FreeBSD's floating point support, but I need to
> > > test my changes on systems using the FPU emulators (non-GPL and GPL). 
> > 
> > I suggested about half a year ago that we should officially desupport
> > non-FPU configurations in 4.0.  Unfortunately, my resolution was
> > soundly defeated.
> 
> Why shouldn't we? Noone uses machines without FPUs anymore. What non-ancient
> CPU doesn't have an FPU? And we're talking about the i386 family here...
> 

Embedded systems, anyone?

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