Re: port-i386/51561: Illegal instruction on Vortex86SX

[Natalia Portillo <claunia%claunia.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/51561; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Natalia Portillo <claunia%claunia.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, port-i386-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/51561: Illegal instruction on Vortex86SX
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:15:45 +0100

 I suspected that may be the case but didn't NetBSD include an FPU
 emulator like Linux optionally does?
 
 Or maybe it's disabling it because cpuid tells it's 586?
 
 On 18/10/16 15:50, coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR port-i386/51561; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: port-i386/51561: Illegal instruction on Vortex86SX
 > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:45:25 +0000
 > 
 >  For the benefit of others reading, it is because the CPU
 >  does not have an FPU.
 >  
 >  Now is the question of how hard it is to build a soft float userland
 >  on i386.
 >  
 >  If it's encouraging, some architectures use just soft float, so the
 >  control knobs are there (MKSOFTFLOAT).
 >  
 >