Subject: Re: Status of math_emulate
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Pierre Dubuc <pldubuc@yahoo.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/25/2007 07:47:58
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> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:16:20 -0500
> From: Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
> To: Pierre Dubuc <pldubuc@yahoo.ca>
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Newsgroups: gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386
> Subject: Re: Status of math_emulate
>
> This is somewhat beside the point, but a 486DX has an FPU; do you
> need MATH_EMULATE? Am I crazy? ;)
>
>
Well, every other Pentium machine going around running a GENERIC kernel
uses the same MATH_EMULATE, so I guess they somehow bypass the emulation
dynamically, or something.
As an experiment, I'll build a kernel without it and give it a try.
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Pierre Dubuc
pldubuc@yahoo.ca
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