> 
> > When hacking on the V-Kernel, I found a measurable win in eliminating
> > all FP in the kernel, and using a fixed-point load average.  I don't
> > know if Core would buy that, because the floating-point load averages
> > were, last time I looked, a machine-independent part of the kernel.
> 
> It seems like if somebody did the work, it would be worth putting in.
> Ideally there shouldn't be any floating point code in the kernel,
> other than to support the FPU's use by user processes.

... and if there _is_ any FP in the kernel, in the pmax port, other
than register save/restore and trap handling, the pmax port is screwed
up.

floating point load average calculations have been gone for a long
time.


chris