On 10.10.2017 13:27, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:03:42AM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 05:02:48AM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote: >>> I think you are confusing things. We do not support FPU emulation in the >>> kernel, but booting on FPU-less machines should still work (with a softfloat >>> userland). >> >> I don't think we should support every esoteric case just in case someone >> wants to complete support it. We haven't run on such machines in over a >> decade. > > We have not provided a usable userland for it, but we were able to boot > on them. > > The cost for this is minimal (given the overall mess of FPU save area > sizes on x86), no point in cleaning this up. > > Martin > Agreed, there are still users asking for no-FPU x86 support. We badly closed one of their latest PR as wontfix...
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