Subject: Re: First BSD system
To: Ulrich Hausmann <ulrich.hausmann@a2e.hp.shuttle.de>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/03/1999 14:50:39
Ulrich Hausmann wrote:
> correct. The LC was really a poor machine, but with 32bit clean mem
> addressing scheme.
> 
> I've a question regard the IIsi: Would it be possible to install NetBSD
> even on those machines, which does not have an FPU (mine has an FPU
> integrated in the Nubus adapter, but that was an add on - not by
> default).

netbsd supports 68882 FP emulation just fine (and has for several years
now).  it is the 68LC040 FPE that has a problem (with the FMOVEM?
instruction).  according to a recent note from Ken, the FPE is actually
more accurate than a full-blown 68040 :-)

later.

colin