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Re: MATH_EMULATE



On Sunday 13 January 2008 09:38:15 John Nemeth wrote:
> On Jun 4,  8:04am, Steve Woodford wrote:
> } For the record, I have a local port of NetBSD for the Linksys
> WRT54GR, } which has an RDC-something-or-other SoC:
> }
> }  cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
> }  cpu0: Cyrix 486DLC (486-class)
>
>      Wow!  I've almost forgotten about those things.  I'm surprised
> that anybody is still using them and that Cyrix is still around.  I'm
> sure that there are processors that are better and just as cheap that
> can be used.

Keep in mind this is just the CPU core on a cheap and nasty 
system-on-a-chip (RDC-R8610 if I recall). Chances are, RDC simply 
licensed the core from whoever now owns the rights to Cyrix's 
technology.

Cheers, Steve



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