Subject: Re: Status of math_emulate
To: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/28/2007 00:02:06
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:22:35PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> 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...)

Especially since the parts of the 'i386' port just don't work on i386
any more.

	David

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