Subject: Re: Status of math_emulate
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/26/2007 22:22:35
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:42:22AM -0500, Pierre Dubuc wrote:
> > kernel FPU emulation is incomplete, and doesn't do fsqrt.
>
> Could another option be to actually implement fsqrt in math_emulate?
> I'm not asking that someone else do it, and I'd be happy to patch the
> source myself, unless I'm told that it wouldn't do any good.

that would certainly fix the problem, and I bet it would be welcomed
into the repository.  it would certainly improve things for the other
two 80386 and 80486SX users out there.

(that tongue-in-cheek estimate may not actually be too far off...)

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