On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 08:20 PM, Dave Huang wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>> What happens if you build a kernel without FPSP (with or without FPU)?
>
> If I'm not mistaken, options FPSP only matters if you're running on a
> 68[LC]040... sys/arch/mac68k/mac68k/locore.s does a
>   cmpl    #FPU_68040,_C_LABEL(fputype) | 68040 FPU?
> and only calls the FPSP routines if the comparison is true. So a kernel
> without FPSP shouldn't be any different on an '030 machine.
>
> I do wonder about this bit of code around line 581 of locore.s though:

PR 13098 reports problems of random aborts in various utilities on a 
1.5Z Kernel running on a Powerbook 160.  That would be a 68030 without 
an FPU, so maybe you're on to something.  I'll restart my build with 
your suggested change instead.

-bob