svn commit: r188937 - head/sys/i386/ibcs2

Bruce M. Simpson bms at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 23 08:17:57 PST 2009


John Baldwin wrote:
> Log:
>   FreeBSD/i386 doesn't include a software FPU emulator anymore, so adjust
>   an iBCS2 syscall to indicate that there is no FPU support at all rather
>   than emulated support if an FPU is not present.
>   

There are a bunch of x86 like chips out there produced by RDC which do 
not have a hardware FPU. I had a crack at trying to get FreeBSD to build 
userland with the softfloat code but didn't get to a working world.

Someone else might be interested in picking up on that...


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