Hi,

Thanks.  The problem with my fixes is that one builds two sets of binaries.

In one case you build the normal binaries with inline f instructions.
In the other case you build them using -msoft-float to gcc and you have
no f instructions.

This allows netbsd to work well on lc040 macs, but, of course, is slower
on macs with fpus.

I'd be happy if the changes were picked up and put in, but, I suspect,
there needs to be some more discussion especially since my changes
aren't really mac68k specific, but rather m68k specific, and the
current users who have real FPUs don't want to give up any 
performance given that 68k systems aren't that fast to begin with :-)

Thanks again!

cheers

bruce

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:51:51AM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Bruce ONeel wrote:
> 
> > So, this brings up some questions.
> >
> > - I got my tar.gz files from
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current.
> > Is this the best place?  I notice a NetBSD-release-2-0/tar_files/src but
> > that is empty.
> 
> Today, three days after the netbsd-2-0 branch, the differences will
> be small, and what's more, nearly everything that's been commited to
> current these last few days will end up in the release, so that
> doesn't matter much. When you next update via cvs, use "-rnetbsd-2-0"
> to switch over to the branch.
> 
> > - I've heard mumbles about the releng site so if I poke at
> > http://releng.netbsd.org I do see that Mac68k hasn't been building.
> > That seems to be current and not 2.0, right?
> 
> Same as above. The last two errors look like a mistake in the build
> script. I take the fact that there are no more of those, as evidence
> that the mistake's been fixed, and the machines are busy grinding
> away at netbsd-2-0.
> 
> > - Surely there is a better mailing list, but, I don't see it on
> > the list of mailing lists.
> 
> current-users is the list to discuss issues with tracking current
> *and* with tracking the branches, as the issues and techniques are
> generally the same.
> 
> > - Are they any documents that I should have already read?
> 
> Not really. Just know that if you have fixes for FPE or anything else
> that you want to see in 2.0, the time to submit them is right now.
> 
> Frederick

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