Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 01:42:42PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 10.10.2017 13:27, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:03:42AM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 05:02:48AM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
> >>> I think you are confusing things. We do not support FPU emulation in the
> >>> kernel, but booting on FPU-less machines should still work (with a softfloat
> >>> userland).
> >>
> >> I don't think we should support every esoteric case just in case someone
> >> wants to complete support it. We haven't run on such machines in over a
> >> decade.
> > 
> > We have not provided a usable userland for it, but we were able to boot
> > on them.
> > 
> > The cost for this is minimal (given the overall mess of FPU save area
> > sizes on x86), no point in cleaning this up.
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> 
> Agreed, there are still users asking for no-FPU x86 support. We badly
> closed one of their latest PR as wontfix...

Given that nothing materialized in the last decade, I'm agreeing with
Maya here. I consider this dead code.

Joerg