Excellent!

That said, the fpu emulation on your 030 *should* work.  That it doesn't
is a problem.

The reason why the softfloat would work then is that it just doesn't
have any F instructions.  Good for the LC040 folks, but should not be
necessary for an 030 which can do fpu emulation correctly.

cheers

bruce

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:47:12PM -0400, iMac wrote:
> on 10/25/05 7:25 AM, Bruce O'Neel at edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > You might be sucessful with the softfloat build.  I've just sent a note
> > about 2.1 RC6.
> > 
> > I've not been testing them recently, but, until recently they have
> > been working fine on my LC040.  I'm not sure they work on 030 systems
> > though nothing is done to exclude them :-)
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> > bruce
> > 
> 
> 
> I am pleased to report that 2.1_RC6-SoftFloat has tamed the savage beast.
> In other words, I finished installing the soffloat build of 2.1_RC6 on my
> LCIII this morning and the subsequent boots have been successful.
> 
> I haven't done to much too configure or run anything under 2.1_RC6-softfloat
> on my LCIII.  I'll keep you updated if I experience any anomalies as I
> continue to configure this machine.
> 
> It's running the twm window manager in X right now. :)
> 
> Regards,
> 

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