On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, der Mouse wrote:
The major way I would foresee its rotting would be via -msoft-float. If my understanding that this would be the only way we'd run on FPUless x86, then this would be the only user of i386 -msoft-float....
I thought that kernel is always built with -msoft-float?
I mean, how much could such compile options get incompatibile with possible source changes -asm()s using FPU instructions, is the first way that comes to mind.
But that was an issue always - even back when the emulation worked, right? The only way to solve such thing would be to have complete emulation of FPU (we could countinue with MMX, SSE...).
Vit Herman