John Wittkoski writes:
> The FPE code is enabled by default when you get the kernel source
> unless you manually comment it out of the configuration file. I
> don't know why anyone whould end up doing this, however, since the
> FPE code is used ONLY if an FPU is not detected. (Can someone
> confirm this?)

You got everything right here, AFAICT.  However, one may want to
exclude FPE on an FPU-equipped system which is low in physical memory
since FPE takes up a chunk of code space in the kernel (I don't think
that's the case with anyone distributing current kernels).

ken