On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 12:38:46AM -0800, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> What timing, I am within a week or so of finally making good on my offer to
> Perry to do something about this. I've got original Intel docs for the 38[67]
> and the latest UCB softfloat package here (supports 80-bit IEEE). The scope
> of the project is a complete replacement for MATH_EMULATE, complete with AMD
> inspired random bit pattern tests to validate the emulator against the real
> silicon.

It'd be great if you got this working fairly soon. The math emulation
in the kernel is pretty bad, and the fact that libm doesn't use the full
i387 instruction set by default sucks.

Let me know how it's going, it's a priority for me to get thix fixed
soon.

- Frank