Removing fpu emulator

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Jul 22 04:04:09 PDT 2003


In message <200307220811.h6M8BHIh059016 at repoman.freebsd.org>, Peter
Wemm writes:
>  Log:
>  Initiate de-orbit burn for fpu-less operation.  386+387 is still
>  theoretically supportable, but you'd really be happier with FreeBSD 2.1.8
>  on it.

People should also note that a big reason for doing this is to improve
floating point support on FreeBSD.  The old floating point emulator
was getting in the way of those improvements.  I'd expect to see a
number of changes to libm over the coming days and weeks.  I'd also
hope to see long double support improved in i386 like it is in amd64
right now...

Warner


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